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The book of Exodus here brings a key aspect of Jewish theology to light: for the accomplishment of divine aims, God chooses to need people.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
We have learned that God is love and God is faithful. Now we see that God is mighty to save, for he is the great Liberator and Deliverer. Israel knows him as Savior and Rescuer, the breaker of chains who responds to the suffering of his people. The loving and faithful God hates injustice and smashes the bonds of servitude. He frees.
Brad East • Letters to a Future Saint: Foundations of Faith for the Spiritually Hungry
God has a special relationship to Israel yet ultimately remains the Lord of all the vast universe, the Lord of Lords. Therefore, the covenant is not restricted to Jews. The covenant was offered before there were Jews in the world.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
Abe calls God “the LORD who provides.”
Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible
Abiding leads to knowing the truth. And the truth will set me free. It’s not just abiding anywhere though. it’s abiding in Jesus. What we abide in will lead to a truth. But it’s only The Truth that can set me free.
... See more“So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and
Jesus has become our Way, our Truth and our Life because he declined to have any way of his own, any truth or reality of his own, only the Father's.
Ocd Burrows Ruth • Essence of Prayer (Hiddenspring)
God’s names reveal His character and actions. And where He provided is noteworthy too. It was “on the mount of the LORD.” Most people believe this mountain is where Solomon builds the temple and that it’s also on this short stretch of mountains that Jesus is crucified. “On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided” (22:14). And it was.
Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible
Moses.” 9Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the people of Israel. 10 The LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they gave no heed. 11Therefore the LORD brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh
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