God continued to display His mighty
deeds and wonders to all the Egyptians and Israelites alike. And
Moses was obedient to everything God told him. He didn't tire but
went back again and again to unrelenting Pharaoh. Moses didn't know
how many plagues were left before it was the end, but he didn't
question God, but continued on in faith. And at the eight plague,
the plague of the locusts, God said the following to Moses:
"You will be able to tell wonderful
stories to your children and grandchildren about the marvelous
things I am doing among the Egyptians to prove that I am the Lord."
Exodus 10:2
God was telling Moses two things
here, first of all He encouraged Moses that they are going to get
through this and that there will come a time when he will have
grandchildren too and where he can have a wonderful time with them
and tell them of how mighty God is. And the second thing is that
God wanted Moses to talk about Him in the future and to share Him
with his children. What wonderful stories Moses had to tell! Wow,
it must have been amazing to hear firsthand how God 'put the
Egyptians in their place'. But we have wonderful stories to tell
too. We have great things that the Lord does for us today and we
must make sure that we share it too. We need to tell our children
and grandchildren, in order to help them grow in their faith in the
Lord. In fact we should be bubbling over, telling of God's good
deeds to everyone.
This reminds me of Deuteronomy
6:7
"Repeat My commands again and again
to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you
are away on a journey, when you are lying down and when you are
getting up again."
In other words whatever you do,
talk about God. and not only talk about Him (talk can be cheap
sometimes) but live Him out to all around you. Whether you are at
home, whether you are travelling (at work), whether you are
relaxing or whether you are busy. Portray Jesus to your children
and to all around you. Don't have different values at home than at
work, or different values when you are relaxing and enjoying
yourself and another set of values when you are busy. No, be
consistently like Jesus wherever you go and show Him to the world.
Your children's faith can waver easily if your walk and talk is not
the same and more than likely they will follow your walk and not
your talk. Non-believers too. They only have us to look at to see
Jesus, no one else can show Him to them. Are you portraying Jesus,
or are your walk and your talk two different things?
Lord Jesus, we want to live holy
lives well pleasing to You. We find it very difficult sometimes,
but thank You for Your Spirit inside of us that strengthen us and
help us to grow more and more firm in You. Thank you Lord Jesus.
Amen