Daily Devotional from Exodus 30—Verse 31And you shall say to the people of Israel, “This shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations.”Ever wondered the origins of anointing oil? Here it is! And even the recipe to use. I, like others, had wondered why we anoint with oil, and this is a good place to start. The significance of this is so much deeper though.In this passage, we see God c...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 29--Verses 44I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar. Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate to serve me as priests.God has established the priesthood here for the Levites. He does this so that there will be a set apart people to usher the Israelites into the presence of God. Today this priesthood is expanded to all believers by the sacrifice of Jesus an...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 28-- And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. - Exodus 28:2When they go into the tent of meeting…they shall wash with water, so that they may not die. - Exodus 30:20Have you been tent camping for a few days, exposed to dust and dirt and campfire smoke, or worked in the yard during the hot summer months? Don’t you just love gett...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 27--Verse 16For the gate of the court there shall be a screen twenty cubits long, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework. It shall have four pillars and with them four bases.In this chapter, we see very specific instructions for the bronze altar, outer court, and oil for the lamp of the Tabernacle. It may seem tedious to...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 26--Verse 30Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan for it that you were shown on the mountain.When Moses took a break away from the people and went up to the mountain to spend one-on-one time with God, God gave him a picture – a vision – of the tabernacle project that he would oversee. Moses wasn’t given any details at the time though, just a vision....  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 25--Verses 26-27And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs. Close to the frame the rings shall lie, as holders for the poles to carry the table.See how detail-oriented God is! It's like IKEA took their cues from Him...'just print instructions and let them build it'. Consider the Table for Bread. ‘Put rings at...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 24–Verse 12The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and wait there…”Moses was about to have the encounter of a lifetime. But before this was to happen, he was simply told to come and wait. But, knowing Moses, he was probably fairly accustomed to this kind of thing with no big encounters to speak of. Lately, I feel the Lord’s been waking me up very early i...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 23--Verse 10Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest.Some songs have no rhythm. Everything just bleeds together. Non-stop work has no rhythm. Fitting everything in your schedule has no rhythm. Saying yes to every opportunity has no rhythm. But a cadence of creation was set in place back in Genesis 1-2. And in order to move to the music you...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 22—This chapter addresses many aspects of right behavior and reflects what Jesus says:“And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”Matthew 22:37-39  If we are loving our neighbors, we w...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 21Verse 24…eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot…How many times have we heard these words quoted, especially in old western movies? And what about verse 7, “If a man sells his daughter”...what’s up with that? Laws about servants, laws about violence, laws about property? Some seem strange, some seem severe and some we read and say, ‘really?’These l...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 20--Verse 3You shall have no other gods before me.In Exodus 19-21, we see a stunning display of God’s power and His outline for morality for the people of Israel. These are the first laws given to them to follow, and they come down to two things: love God and love your neighbor (Mark 12:29-31).This is the struggle of the human condition. It’s hard for us to love God ab...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 19--Verse 5‘Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.I love how the New Testament connects to the Old Testament. The mission that ...  Read More