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He shall take out the memorial portion from the grain offering and burn it on the altar as a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the Lord. Leviticus 2:9 The Israelites are still out in the wilderness learning the laws and part of the laws are the different offerings they are to make to theContinue reading “A Pleasing Aroma”

In all the travels of the Israelites, whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, they would set out; but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out – until the day it lifted. So the cloud of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloudContinue reading “Hurry up and Stay”

They made the bronze basin and it’s bronze stand from the mirrors of the woman who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting. Exodus 38:8 In the middle of the wilderness, building a beautiful tabernacle, God used broken pieces to cleanse the hands, feet, and heart of his people. Tucked in between makingContinue reading “You can’t THROW stones when you’re WASHING feet.”

Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you. Exodus 34:12 God was preparing the Israelites for the land they would enter. As he does, he reminds them that there are people already living in this land, peopleContinue reading “Be the difference in the world, not letting the world make you different.”

It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed. Exodus 31:17 Moses was a busy man. Leading the Israelites through the wilderness, teaching them the ways of the Lord, being anContinue reading “Finding Rest when the rest of the World wants us to be Busy.”

To the Israelites the glory of the Lord looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain. Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights. Exodus 24:17-18 Moses and the Israelites are finally at a place in their travelsContinue reading “Something about 40”

If you take your neighbors cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset, because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can I sleep in? When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate. Exodus 22:26-27 God hears all of our concerns because he is compassionate. AtContinue reading “Sowing seeds of compassion”

The next day Moses took his seat to serve as judge for the people, and they stood around him from morning till evening. When his father-in-law saw all Moses was doing for the people, he said, “what is this you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge, while all theseContinue reading “We ALONE can’t solve all the worlds problems”

As long as Moses held up his hand, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up — one on one side, one onContinue reading “Sometimes we need help to hold up our hands.”

In days to come, when your son ask you, “what does this mean?” Say to him, “with a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.“ Exodus 13:14 At some point in each of our lives we will find ourselves in the land of slavery. Seven years ofContinue reading “Finding freedom”