Change is tough, whether for the better or worse. I Am with you through it all. You just have to let Me lead.

The final step into safety affords time to reflect on idolatry's insidious presence in your own life. Yes, yours.

In the painful peak of deliverance, a high price paid for freedom.

Unnamed as the Pharaoh they theoretically serve, each of the 10 plagues falls squarely in the territory of one or more of Egypts "gods," none of whom make an appearance.

You are not alone in this. I Am with you.

Feeling something doesn’t make it true. Though you may feel like it, I promise you that I have neither forgotten nor abandoned you; and I want you to take heart in knowing that, in spite of how you may feel right now, I Am still at work, albeit behind the scenes for a longer time than you’d like.

Moses persists in trying to get out of the job I’m sending him on, asking Me to send somebody else. Which really steams Me. Still does. When I clearly set someone to do something like I Am doing here with Moses, and all they can come up with are reasons why it can’t happen, I have to play the, “Who do you think you’re talking to?” card.

The perfect storm of superstition and mispronunciation nearly wipes the sweetest sounds on earth away.

A well-intentioned but very poorly planned tradition/superstition removes the most important sounds from human speech and memory.

Just when we thought Moses was perfectly positioned, he gets himself deep in trouble and sheep manure.