Week 4 Exodus 3
There was a yellow sticky note in my bible that blocked out the first three verses of Exodus 3. It was a reminder from last April 15 about a verse in psalm 103 that said the Lord had ‘revealed his character to Moses’ (NLT). My post-it note told me ‘the next 135 chapters are about the Lord revealing his character to Moses’. It was a half-baked synopsis of Exodus-to-Deuteronomy. But a reminder of something to look out for.
As I get started on Exodus the psalm’s tip-off is: “now you’re going to read material that describes what the Lord is like”. So I’ll hope for some clarity (even though Moses’ last four books don’t exactly jump out at me as a Making-Things-More-Clear section).
I was talking to someone a couple of days ago about reading the chapters that came after Exodus 20. She didn’t know how things would go. Wondered if she’d get stalled. I knew the feeling. Knew that halfway through Exodus I’m starting into an uphill grind.
Which means that the prompt from 103 is pretty helpful. I normally think the big focus in Exodus Leviticus Numbers & Deuteronomy is on laws & regulations. But the psalm says that – in addition to that – the Lord is revealing his character to Moses.
So I’ll have to be on the lookout for that. Maybe there’s more character revelation than meets the eye. Maybe I’ve been selling Moses’ last four books short.
Note: quote from psalm 103:7 (NLT)