Why Have You Sent Me PT-2) (Exodus 5:22-6:8)

3/21/2008 10:31 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time  Focus:  Moses:  “Why have you sent me?” Part II
Bible Reading & Meditation  Reference:  Exodus 5:22-6:8
 Message of the verses:  Verses will not be posted on this SD since they are the same as yesterday’s verses.
 The second way that God encouraged Moses was by reminding him of His covenant name “Jehovah.”  This gets a bit confusing here because of what verse three of chapter six says, “And I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, LORD, I did not make Myself known to them.”  The patriarchs knew God as “El Shaddai” the all-sufficient and all-powerful God.  They also knew the name Jehovah, but really did not know that name like God told Moses about it while he was at the burning bush.  This name Jehovah as it is used in most English Bibles is a word in the Hebrew that has no vowels in it.  (Hebrew words do not contain vowels in them and when they are translated into English the vowels are added so the words can be pronounced).  Getting back to the point of this SD and that is that God now associates He name with the covenant He would make with His people, (6:4), “I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they sojourned.”  This name for God, Jehovah, is the special name of God that associates Him with Israel and His covenants, and because it is so special to them they will not even pronounce this name and so when they read it in the Scriptures they use the name Adonai (Master).  I have read that the reason they do not pronounce this name is because of the third commandment, “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.”  They are afraid of when pronouncing His name that they would some how take it in vain so they never pronounce the name.
 Spiritual meaning for my life today:  God gave four encouraging reason to Moses in this section, and God can encourage me through these same reasons that He gave to Moses.  Yesterday I learned that there were great promises in this section and today I have learned about the name that is pronounced Jehovah, which is His covenant giving name and means that He will always keep His covenants he has made with man.  I am speaking of the covenants that have no conditions in them.
My Steps of Faith for Today:  Remember that God is the all powerful God, and the God who keeps His covenants.
Memory verses for the week:    2Cor. 12:9-10
9. And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weaknesses.”  Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
10. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake, for when I am weak, then I am strong.