Christian Devotional – July 26, 2023

The Coming Savior, Day 3

The sign. Read Exodus chapter 3.

God promised Moses a sign. I don’t know how many times I have read this chapter, but I’ve never noticed this before. God does indeed promise Moses a sign, but it is going to come after the obedience. When you read through this and when you think about other instances in the Bible when God gives a sign, we always think of the sign happening before the person follows through on their obedience to God. The sign is to be a motivator or a demonstration of God’s power and ability.

Here, this is entirely different. The sign that God promises Moses is going to happen after Moses has been obedient to all that God has commanded him. So why did God promise a sign? Moses didn’t ask for one, at least not yet. The only thing Moses had asked him was who was God. This sign was in response to Moses’s questioning of who God was. This sign was to be a demonstration of the power and authority of God.

God has the ability to do everything he’s asking Moses to do and to support him through it because he’s already promised him the outcome. Moses knew what the result of the people coming out of Egypt was going to be. They were going to worship God on this mountain because God in his authority had already said so.

Do we take action based on our knowledge of what God has promised us in the future? God has the authority to do anything and everything and he has already promised us victory if we will simply obey him. Are we acting each day in obedience based on the signs that God has given us?