Today’s devotion comes from Exodus 6:2-30. Here is a link to this chapter – https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+6&version=NASB1995
I quote only the following verses.
“God spoke further to Moses and said to him, “I am the LORD; and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, LORD, I did not make Myself known to them. I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they sojourned. Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant. Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you for a possession; I am the LORD.’” So Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account of their despondency and cruel bondage.
Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the sons of Israel go out of his land.” But Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, “Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am unskilled in speech?” Then the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge to the sons of Israel and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt.” Exodus 6:2-13.
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God pounded the table. “I am the LORD; … God Almighty”. We see by bold italic font highlights above how often He emphasized His name, “I am the LORD”, which spoke loudly and clearly as to His Sovereignty and Almighty Power. We see His vivid descriptions of what He would do.
“Then the LORD said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for under compulsion he will let them go, and under compulsion he will drive them out of his land.” Exodus 6:1.
The facts that the sons of Israel did not listen to Moses on account of their despondency and cruel bondage and that Moses questioned the LORD (“how then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am unskilled in speech?”) did not deter nor delay nor prevent nor change God’s plan.
“But Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and besides, I will not let Israel go.” Exodus 5:2.
The fact that Pharaoh was so arrogant, determined, and held Israel so tightly under such cruel bondage did not deter nor delay nor prevent nor change God’s plan.
“10 Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things which have not been done,
Saying, ‘My purpose will be established,
And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’;
11 Calling a bird of prey from the east,
The man of My purpose from a far country.
Truly I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass.
I have planned it, surely I will do it.” Isaiah 46:10-11.
“Then Job answered the LORD and said,
2 “I know that You can do all things,
And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.” Job 42:1-2.
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