Exodus 2-5 The Egyptian in the Sand

Fact: anyone who really knows me can tell you one thing for certain….I am an obsessive person. (Ok that isn’t the only thing they could say…they might mention klutzy of goofy or something like that too)

But anyway…my latest passionate obsession in the television show “Bones.” Seriously, I love it…it’s like taco bell at two in the morning…SO Good. Just a little spicy and it so hits the spot. (Passing over the fact that neither are all that good for you.) My bible reading tonight made me think of “Bones” for two reasons.

Reason #1

Bones and Exodus two express one of the same basic idea…it is impossible to hide sin. The truth eventually does come out, even when we try incredibly hard to hide it! In Exodus Two, Moses kills an Egyptian. He did it for what probably seemed like a very good reason, but he does try to hide his crime. The truth did come out, and Moses had to run for his life. Many times in the book of Genesis, God reminds us that there must be an accounting for all human lives….the idea that the death of the Egyptian could not be hidden is a reminder.

Reason #2 (The one that I am actually pretty excited about)

My favorite favorite favorite Bones moments are the rescue scenes. There are several moments in the show when the protagonist is in a position where she is about to be hurt or killed, and at just the right moment her friend come in and saves her. He shows up, and he pulls her out of the wreckage or he shoots the bad guy. He gives her a hug and her tells her that the bad it over…that it is going to be ok. He then takes her away from the scary place. She never has to go back. I love those scenes so much because they truly remind me of my Savior. He swoops into my life over and over again, and he saves me. He steps in front of my bullet and he makes the bad into good.

Here is what I read tonight…

Exodus 3:7-10

The LORD said, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt."

I was reminded that my savior was not okay with leaving his children in a place where they were being hurt. He was using Moses to step into their lives and to RESCUE them from the Egyptians. He took them far away from the bad place and he affirmed them that is was all over. He took them away from the bad and into the good.