The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in Psalm 114:1-2,
"When Israel came out of Egypt, Jacob from a people of foreign tongue, Judah became God's sanctuary, Israel his dominion."
The entire scriptural record has as its intent to inform us of God's redemption of mankind. It is a consistent and reliable telling of the origin of all trouble in this life for mankind as being his fall as recorded in the book of Genesis, and then the account of how God set himself to redeem mankind as a people for himself.
A key piece of that plan of redemption was to use a nation he had created out of a man, Abraham, who displayed the kind of faith God determined he would require of us to participate in that redemption. Israel became that nation as it incubated in Egypt for 400 years, where a single family became a nation of millions.
Paul tells us about God's use of that nation in his redemption of mankind in Romans 9:4-5, "Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen."
"When Israel came out of Egypt, Jacob from a people of foreign tongue, Judah became God's sanctuary, Israel his dominion."
The entire scriptural record has as its intent to inform us of God's redemption of mankind. It is a consistent and reliable telling of the origin of all trouble in this life for mankind as being his fall as recorded in the book of Genesis, and then the account of how God set himself to redeem mankind as a people for himself.
A key piece of that plan of redemption was to use a nation he had created out of a man, Abraham, who displayed the kind of faith God determined he would require of us to participate in that redemption. Israel became that nation as it incubated in Egypt for 400 years, where a single family became a nation of millions.
Paul tells us about God's use of that nation in his redemption of mankind in Romans 9:4-5, "Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen."
The focus of this telling in the pages of Scripture is on God's Son, Jesus Christ. He is the One who made payment securing our redemption and he is the One we embrace in faith to secure that redemption for ourselves.
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Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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