Thought from today’s Bible reading from Exodus 10-12.
The plagues with which God afflicted Pharaoh and the nation of Egypt were designed to do a couple of things: to cause Pharaoh to let the people go and to prove to all who heard of these events that the Lord was the one true God over all things. But this was not only for the benefit of that generation. It was to help those of future generations to develop their own faith as well.
“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may perform these signs of Mine among them, and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your grandson, how I made a mockery of the Egyptians and how I performed My signs among them, that you may know that I am the Lord’” (Exodus 10:1-2).
Those who descended from Moses’ generation needed to know about these works of God. They needed to hear of His miracles. They needed to be told of the foolish and futile attempts of the Egyptians to oppose the Lord. If the future generations were not told, they could not know.
There is an application for us today. Like Moses, we need to be telling our sons and our grandsons about the Almighty God of heaven. We need to teach them about the great works which He has done – works that only He could do. We need to instruct them about His word and our obligations to obey. We need to impress upon them the foolishness and futility of rejecting Him.
This is our task as parents and grandparents – to lead the next generation to the Lord.
Tomorrow’s reading: Exodus 13-15
[I’m using the Chronological reading plan on the Bible Gateway website if you’d like to follow along, too.]
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