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EXPERIENCE IS A TEACHER
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
Deuteronomy 11:1-17

Acts 7:37-39

 

“This is he, that was in the church in
the wilderness with the angel which

spake to him in the mount Sina…”

 

EXPERIENCE IS A TEACHER
 
The miracles and wonders that the Lord did from the beginning of the Exodus were very instructive. Moses punctuated his speech with an appeal to obey the Lord and to keep His commandments. The majority of his audience did not experience all those wonders since most of them were were not yet born when they came out of Egypt. The wonders of the Lord among them were an assurance of their victory and blessings as they prepared to occupy the Promised Land.
 
Loving and keeping God’s commandments came first. Moses was speaking to a number of those who had not seen the wonders of the Lord as they came out of Egypt. However all of them were familiar with all those events as they had been told and retold.
 
 While they were still in Egypt, God visited that nation with ten grievous plagues. The Egyptian magicians tried to imitate them to some extent. At last they admitted that it was the finger of God. The ten plagues were wonders that no one could repeat. These occurrences are well documented in Exodus 7-12: the first being the changing of water into blood, the second was a flood of frogs everywhere. The Egyptian magicians tried to repeat these two and convinced the king that he could resist. In the third one, every particle of dust in Egypt became lice and even attacked the magicians. That was when they acknowledged that it was from God. Then the plagues of flies and grievous murrain upon domestic animals followed. Then there were boils upon humans, and hail and locusts that destroyed all the crops. Pitch darkness was plague number nine. After each of these, the king of Egypt hesitated to let the children of Israel leave Egypt. The people had urged him to let them go, but each time he would make a promise and then turn back on his word. The final one was a very painful one that touched every home in Egypt. The Lord told Moses that all the firstborn among the Egyptians would die. When it came, it broke Pharaoh’s will and he allowed Israel to leave.
 
THOUGHT: Experience is an effective teaching aid.

PRAYER: Father, help me to believe Thy word by faith.

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