A Love I never imagined (part 1)

Picture Egypt. The era of Pharoahs and lavish empires, vast empires built by blood, sweat and tears of the Hebrew people. The sting of the whip on the backs of Hebrew slaves is not as violent as the sting of hope fading. These people have been slaves for a long time. They cry out to God with their eyes closed, hands thrown up in the air, grasping their heads, as they fall on their knees to the ground. And for after years of prayer they still remained as they were, mere slaves-- robbed of their dignity and their freedom. Has their God forsaken them? Have they been abandoned? Is it foolishness to hang on to hope, when the Egyptians tried their hardest every day to beat it out of them?

BUT GOD..."heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them." (Exodus 2:24-25).

This is just the beginning of God proving His love for His people. I have always loved the story of Moses leading God's people out of Egypt. His mercy is so evident in His deliverance of the Israelites from an oppressive monarchy.

"The LORD said, 'I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers and I am concerned about their suffering. so I have come down to rescue them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey...and now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.'" (Exodus 3:8-9)

And who does God send to deliver His people? A humble shepherd from the desert, a man who has been exiled from the house of Pharaoh...a man by the name of Moses.

Why did God choose to use Moses? God was more than capable of destroying the Egyptian empire on His own? Was it not God, who commanded the universe into existence? Demolishing the vast Egyptian dynasty would've been too easy? But why did God choose to use a humble and lowly human being, such as Moses?

This journal entry might seem scattered. But I am just in awe of the story of the Exodus. How God proved His greatness, His power, His sovereignty...and His love for His people, His children. And most of all, I think that this story really should remind us of how much we should LOVE God and make us think of what that kind of love should look like. It is a love that we never imagined, a different love from what we know of love now. And we should love God because of how GREAT He is. We should truly stand in awe of His might.