An Insight from Exodus

The Bible speaks to one and all differently its message. To one its poetry brings light, to another its history; to me, when first knuckling down and slogging through it myself, it was the opening story of Exodus which came alive to me. I knew the story backwards and forwards, but I remember lying on my bed, just turning the final page of Genesis to a close, wondering what the word Exodus meant. A magic gripped me, I was through the bushes of what I knew and entering something I hadn’t touched before. When I started reading, I realized this wasn’t new, here was the story of Moses. But instead of disappointment, the story came alive for me as it never had before.

Of late I’ve been rereading this book, and am entering the giving of the law, and the Mosaic covenant. Here’s a layman’s observation: they flee a tyranny and head out into the wilderness, but that is not enough, they must go higher still. In essence, it’s not sufficient to simply point out what’s wrong, to leave or critique a bad situation, without proffering a solution. And as an aside, how would a critique have any flesh and bone to it if not for showing something else is better? Anyone can call anything stupid, it takes truth and reason to know and express why something is imperfect and ought to be changed. Recognize what is wrong, and find the right.

The Bible will speak to you if you listen; it is the word of God.