The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in Exodus 9:13-14,
"Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Get up early in the morning, confront Pharaoh and say to him, "This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me, or this time I will send the full force of my plagues against you and against your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth."'"
The Lord told Moses to say this to Pharaoh prior to bringing the horrific plague of hail that killed people and animals in Egypt that were not under cover. In verses 25-26 we read, "Throughout Egypt hail struck everything in the fields—both people and animals; it beat down everything growing in the fields and stripped every tree. The only place it did not hail was the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were."
God wanted to communicate that there was no one like him in all the earth. God is a one of a kind. He exists in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, but he is one God, and, there is nothing in all the creation like him. He is unique.
There is no such thing as "you have your God and I have mine." There are no differing definitions of who God is or what he is like. All of that is spelled out in our Bibles. God is unique and there is none other. The psalmist asks the rhetorical question, "The Lord is exalted over all the nations, his glory above the heavens. Who is like the Lord our God, the One who sits enthroned on high, who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth?" Psalm 113:4-6. None is like him. He exists in his complete and total uniqueness, in all his splendor and glory!
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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"Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Get up early in the morning, confront Pharaoh and say to him, "This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me, or this time I will send the full force of my plagues against you and against your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth."'"
The Lord told Moses to say this to Pharaoh prior to bringing the horrific plague of hail that killed people and animals in Egypt that were not under cover. In verses 25-26 we read, "Throughout Egypt hail struck everything in the fields—both people and animals; it beat down everything growing in the fields and stripped every tree. The only place it did not hail was the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were."
God wanted to communicate that there was no one like him in all the earth. God is a one of a kind. He exists in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, but he is one God, and, there is nothing in all the creation like him. He is unique.
There is no such thing as "you have your God and I have mine." There are no differing definitions of who God is or what he is like. All of that is spelled out in our Bibles. God is unique and there is none other. The psalmist asks the rhetorical question, "The Lord is exalted over all the nations, his glory above the heavens. Who is like the Lord our God, the One who sits enthroned on high, who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth?" Psalm 113:4-6. None is like him. He exists in his complete and total uniqueness, in all his splendor and glory!
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!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just reply and let me know. A blog with all my posts can be found here: http://worshipfortoday.blogspot.com/
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