Acts 7:35-42
35"It was this Moses whom they rejected when they said, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?' and whom God now sent as both ruler and liberator through the angel who appeared to him in the bush. 36He led them out, having performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years. 37This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, 'God will raise up a prophet for you from your own people as he raised me up.' 38He is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors; and he received living oracles to give to us. 39Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him; instead, they pushed him aside, and in their hearts they turned back to Egypt, 40saying to Aaron, 'Make gods for us who will lead the way for us; as for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.' 41At that time they made a calf, offered a sacrifice to the idol, and reveled in the works of their hands.
42But God turned away from them and handed them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'Did you offer to me slain victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Thoughts:
God raises up Israel and lifts them out of slavery from Egypt using an ordinary man named Moses. Yet the people are never happy. Despite the people's sin and rejection of God Moses says in verse 37 that God will raise up a prophet who will come from your own people. Many thought this prophet was Joshua but actually Moses was referring to one yet unborn, namely Jesus. Despite what God has done for us and continues to do for us how many times have we been ungrateful or unsatisified with what we have? How easy it is for us to turn to other gods, wanting more and more.
Prayer:
O Lord I thank for all that you have given me. Help me focus on my devotion to you rather than devotion to those things that separate me from you. Amen
--Thoughts by Rev. Tom Knoll
Pastor First Trinity Lutheran, Washington D.C.
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+ Lutheran Campus Ministry at George Mason University http://www.gmu.edu/org/lutheran
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