Welcome to a year in the Bible with daily grace. The Bible tells one big story of redemption.

And we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to

finish and exploring how all of it points to Jesus.

Welcome back to a year in the Bible with daily grace. My name is Katie and we're diving

into Exodus 4 through 6 today. We are jumping right back in today with Moses at the burning

bush, right in the presence of God. God tells Moses that he will leave the Israelites

out of deep oppression. At the beginning of chapter 4, we find Moses doubting himself, asking

what ifs. We've all been there, right? The Lord kindly meets Moses here and his doubt

and God promises he will be with Moses and gives him three miraculous signs to perform

before Israel and Pharaoh. His staff turns into a snake, his hands get leprosy and then

are healed, and he turns water from the Nile River into blood. Still, Moses is paralyzed

by his shortcomings. He says, I am slow in speech, God. After all, you must be eloquent

to convince Pharaoh to release his slaves, right? Moses begs the Lord to send someone

else. God is angry, but he does not remove Moses' role as leader from Israel. Instead,

he gives Moses a helper. His brother Aaron will serve as a mouthpiece for Moses, communicating

what God has told him to the people of Israel and Pharaoh. Moses packs up his family and

journeys back to Egypt to begin his adventure. But something interesting happens along the

way. God tries to kill someone. Yep, you heard that right. This passage is incredibly

confusing. Scholars have been trying to figure it out for centuries, but there is still no

consensus. We aren't sure if God tried to kill Moses or his firstborn son. We don't

know God's motive. Although there are a lot of scholars that think it's because Moses

broke the covenant God gave to Abraham by not circumcising his son. And we definitely

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