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My Daily Blessing from My Daily Bible Reading
with meditations
by my mother, Poetess Gertrude Sanborn
JANUARY
22
Exodus 10:8 -- Exodus 13:2
MOSES REMEMBERED BY HIS PEERS
Exodus 11:3
"Moses was very great in the
land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants,
and in the sight of the people"
Perhaps you would not choose this verse as
important because, in future chapters, we will read of
the death of all the first-born of every house, barn,
and field in the land of Egypt. Only those who applied
the blood of a lamb would be spared.
I was
impressed with the fact that Moses, with one more plague
in the wings, was well thought-of in that land of
soon-coming death and tears. The Egyptian people must
have remembered him when he was a youth. They remember
him when he lived in the previous Pharaoh’s palace. For
some reason they liked him.
The children
and young people of Moses’ former days had now grown up
into adults. They had matured as Moses grew in grace,
laboring with sheep and wind there in the area of his
"burning bush" experience. They remembered him. How
could they forget the story of the baby pulled from the
Nile by the Princess?
Even then,
God was grooming the leader who would deliver his
oppressed people! Perhaps they did not accept the
message of a soon-coming DESTROYER. But they knew Moses!
They may not have understood their nation’s approaching,
unexplainable grief, but the common people saw Moses as
a "great" man. No wonder their women showered the
Deliverer of Israel with jewelry of silver and gold! (ysw)
"SAFETY" (Psalm
4:8)
I will both lay
me down in peace and sleep "For thou, Lord, only maketh me
dwell in safety!" To be able to go
to bed at night Knowing that we
are under the blood –Justified and
declared righteous-– Should give us
peace and rest and relaxation. HE ONLY MAKES ME
DWELL SAFELY! (GGS)
And Sarah heard it in the tent door,
which was behind him. And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And
he said, Behold, in the tent. And he said, I will
certainly return unto thee according to the time of
life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. (Genesis 18:10)
Under God's Care,
Yvonne S. Waite
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