Scripture text for Monday, February 1, 2010: Exodus 19:1-20:21
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Uh oh, here we go. This is where the rules start. Sure it’s only ten now, but soon it will expand to six hundred and thirty-two soon. Rules, laws, ordinances, and commands are not comfortable words. For many, they are associated with control, failure, guilt, and shame.
But, just before the commandments are given, God says, “I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.” Exodus 20:2.
This verse is very interesting to me. Surely, Moses knows who God is! He saw and knew what God had done and how they’d escaped from slavery in Egypt.