Read Exodus 6:1-9
Verse 1-9 -
We are most likely to prosper in attempts to glorify God, and to be
useful to men, when we learn by experience that we can do nothing of
ourselves; when our whole dependence is placed on him, and our only
expectation is from him. Moses had been expecting what God would do;
but now he shall see what he will do. God would now be known by his
name Jehovah, that is, a God performing what he had promised, and
finishing his own work. God intended their happiness: I will take
you to me for a people, a peculiar people, and I will be to you a
God. More than this we need not ask, we cannot have, to make us
happy. He intended his own glory: Ye shall know that I am the Lord.
These good words, and comfortable words, should have revived the
drooping Israelites, and have made them forget their misery; but
they were so taken up with their troubles, that they did not heed
God's promises. By indulging discontent and fretfulness, we deprive
ourselves of the comfort we might have, both from God's word and
from his providence, and go comfortless.
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