This post is part of my ongoing series of writing down my thoughts on the Bible passages I read each day. Some days I hope to have great insight that the Lord gives me, and many days, I will likely struggle through the text and not know what to write down based on what I read. My hope and prayer is that as I make this a habit, just as I did daily writing for so long, that I will improve on my ability to read and understand the passages I’m reading. Please keep in mind that many of these posts may be published late at night or with little time studying and simply be my first thoughts after reading. This is in no way a commentary that one should use to discern the Bible, but my own personal thoughts.

It seems the two things that I thought the most as I read through the book of Exodus was “The people of Israel are such a great mirror image of how we live our lives so often”, and “God cares about even the smallest of details in our lives.”

So often, Israel is one second complaining about God and what he’s done, the next they’re worshiping and singing songs. They can’t be content it seems for any length of time. Something I think we will, unfortunately, see only more of over the next 20-30 books.

Yet even as God is taking Israel, a people of well over a million, out of slavery, and to a land not close to where they started, even as he does this, he cares about how they do everything. We see Him spell out the clothing that Aaron and his brothers should wear. He explains the sacrifices and how how they should be done. There is a specific way that God really likes it, and he makes that clear to Moses throughout this book that we read.

If God can do such great things as bring millions out of slavery, yet do it while caring about the very clothing of the people, how much more will he not care about you, yet be able to use you in incredible ways. Not only Moses’ example of being someone who may not have thought he would be a great leader and trying to pawn it off on Aaron but even the whole book points to a God who is able to do so much and cares about every detail of that “so much”