Tuesday – Pentateuch

Reading – Exodus 10-11

Highlight Verse:

“Pharaoh retorted, “The Lord will certainly need to be with you if I let you take your little ones! I can see through your evil plan.”
‭‭Exodus‬ ‭10‬:‭10‬ ‭NLT‬‬

As we would say when I lived in the south, “well ain’t that the pot calling the kettle black.”

Pharaoh, the man who kept a whole nation as slaves and whose predecessor ordered the Hebrew baby boys to be throw into the Nile, calls Moses’ plan evil.

But then, the human race has a long history of doing that. When one’s values don’t agree with someone else’s values, you just call them evil because your own are the best, right?

With all these conflicting values, how do you know which ones are right?

I prefer to stick to the values of the One who created us. An easy place to find them is in the Ten Commandments.

If that’s too complicated for you, let me sum up how Jesus summed up the Law in Matthew 22:34-40 –

Love God and love people.

All the rest of the Law was based on those two simple commands.

And, in case you’re wondering, enslaving an entire nation is not a great way to show that you love God and people.

What are ways that you can love God better?
What about loving people better?