Tuesday in Judica

During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. 25 God saw the people of Israel—and God knew. 10 God said to Moses: “Go, I will send you to Pharaoh so that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”) Exodus 2,23-25; 3,10).

As the pace picks up during the last two weeks of Lent, we draw closer to the celebration of God's deliverance of the world. His redemption of Israel from Egypt by the hand of Moses is a type of what He later did by redeeming the world from sin by the death and resurrection of Jesus. Both have the same goals: deliverance and inheritance. Israel was delivered from bondage and inherited the land of Canaan. The world was delivered from sin and inherited eternal life. All this was promised to Abraham, fulfilled by Jesus and we inherit it through faith.

"Though I now have Thee forsaken,
I will once again return;
For Thy Son hath reconciled us
Through His agony and death.
I deny no whit my guilt;
But Thy mercy and Thy grace
Are much greater than the failings
Which I ever find within me." (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Prayer of the Day

O Lord Jesus Christ, the temple of Your body was destroyed on the cross and three days later raised from the dead and exalted to the right hand of the Father. Visit us now with this same body, so that in faith we hear in our ears Your life-giving voice to strengthen us in times of trials and tribulations; for You live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen.