July 29, 2025 Morning Devotional
Morning Devotion: Read Exodus
Exodus 7:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. 2 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land. 3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. 4 But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them. 6 And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did they.
Imagine what God can do with you, no matter what age you are God can use you to glorify Him. Moses was eighty years old and Aaron, his brother was eighty three years old. Moses was just getting started at age eighty. What are you doing?
Notice God said He would harden Pharaoh’s heart. He said it many times in the book of Exodus. Pharaoh’s first encounter with Moses began that hardening process because it would go against the Egyptian worship system.
Why? Verse five gives us the reason; “and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD.”
Everything God does is to glorify Him. Everything God does is to bring people to salvation and into the glory of God.
Philippians 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
2Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
The Egyptians worshiped false gods and gave no glory to God because they did not know God. They worshiped idols in the form of creatures.
Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
In the first meeting Aaron’s rod was cast down and it became a serpent. Probably a snake or a crocodile. Both are creatures the Egyptians worshiped. The Egyptians worship a false god named Apepi. This was pictured as snake or a crocodile.
The false god Apepi was in opposition to the Ra a false sun god; they would fight with one another for the darkness and the light. Apepi was for the darkness and Ra was for the light. Each false god was worshipped to maintain equilibrium in with day and night. Some people do the same thing when they read horoscopes and follow celestial happenings. Most of the world today follows the sun god Ra.
What Moses and Aaron did in the presence of Pharaoh was in direct opposition to their worship system. You will notice, as we go through this chapter, that Moses wanted to take Israel out of Egypt to worship the true God.
What do you worship in your life? Do you worship the true God of heaven through the Lord Jesus Christ?
John 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. 25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. 26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
Jesus is the only way to God the Father and true worship.
The choice is still yours,
Pastor Cook
