Our Deliverer: Exodus 3:7-10

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Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look upon God. Any awakened sinner might hide his face as he realizes for the first time that he is guilty before a holy God. Instead of condemning Moses, God gave him a message of blessing both for himself and for His people. Today, the moment a sinner realizes and owns his sin, God reaches out and saves him. As soon as the publican in Luke 18 said, “God be merciful to me a sinner,” God was merciful and the publican went down to his house justified.
Our True Deliverer
God told Moses that He had seen the affliction of His people and that He knew all about their sorrows. He knew what it meant for them to be beaten and kicked as slaves were in those days. Long before this Moses had thought that God did not see what His people had to endure, and he had tried to set things right by killing an Egyptian. Like Moses we often think the work of saving souls is ours. True, it is our privilege to be diligent in carrying the message of salvation, but let us remember that God alone can save a soul from sin and its bondage. He is far more willing to do it than we are, so let us sow the good seed of His Word and then look to Him for His blessing on it. “God giveth the increase” (1 Cor. 3:77So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. (1 Corinthians 3:7)).
The message that Moses was to carry to his people told of what God was going to do in the future. Now we can tell of a work already finished. The Lord Jesus, our Deliverer, has died; His blood has been shed; and now He is risen and seated at God’s right hand as the proof that God has accepted the redemption work which He has accomplished. Have you thanked God for that finished work? Can you say that the blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, has cleansed you from all your sin?
Sheltered by Blood
God not only told Moses that He knew all about the suffering which the children of Israel were enduring under Pharaoh’s taskmasters, but He said He would deliver them from their burdens and take them completely out of Egypt. Most of us have friends who sympathize with us in our sorrows, but seldom can they deliver us from these griefs. We who are saved have a Friend who knows all our sorrows and is also going to deliver us from them. Someday soon He is going to give a shout in the air and call all His own to be forever with Himself in that home above where sin and sorrow can never enter. The children of Israel, as we shall see later, had to sprinkle the blood of the slain lamb on the lintel and two side posts of their homes before they could be delivered from Egypt. The only way of deliverance for you or me is through the shed blood of Christ. When we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, His blood cleanses us from all sin. This is the only way to enter that bright city above, for all those who are there sing, “Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation” (Rev. 5:99And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; (Revelation 5:9)).
Will you be there and I?
Will you be there and I?
Where all the redeemed
shall with Jesus dwell;
But will you be there and I?
Further Meditation
1. What did God promise to do for His suffering people?
2. How are we encouraged by God to sow the seed of His Word?
3. More on the subject of redemption can be found in the short and easy to read pamphlet, Purchase and Redemption: The Difference Between Bought and Redeemed, by B. Anstey.