Day 6 with Moses: The God of our fathers must become “our God.”

“Moreover He said, “I am the God of your father—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.”

‭‭Exodus‬ ‭3:6‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

I have heard people referencing some countries as being “post-Christian.” Sadly, although we are not completely there yet, there are many forces pushing the United States to become a post-Christian country.

Now, a post-Christian country is one which started out—or came to be—based on Christian values and a Christian worldview, but then gradually began to embrace values and a worldview not based on Christian principles. Indeed, the “new” values may be contradictory to the Word of God.

We know that the imposition of a tyrannical government can definitely speed up the transition from a Christian nation to a post-Christian nation. But—more often than not—even the imposition of the godless government has been preceded by a drifting away from dependence upon the Lord. One of the main reasons for this tragic shifting away from God, is assuming that Godly values are inherited. Or, assuming that a relationship with God in one generation, assures a relationship with God in the next; it doesn’t.

We see numerous instances in the Word of God where the Lord instructs people—who then instruct other people—to tell their children about the Lord. They are instructed to tell their children what God has done lest they forget.

“Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.”

‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭11:18-19‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Today we find the Lord introducing Himself to Moses as “the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” But we never think about the fact that there was a time when Jacob—who became “Israel”— knew the Lord only as the God of his fathers.

“And behold, the Lord stood above it and said: “I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.”

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭28:13‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

But there came a day when Jacob discovered that the God of Abraham and Isaac must become his God as well.

“Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and keep me in this way that I am going, and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on, so that I come back to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God.”

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭28:20-21‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

We know that Moses, having been raised—in part—by his own mother, would have heard about the Hebrew God. But now the time has come for God to go beyond being the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, to being the God of Moses; and did He ever!

For today let us discover what Moses discovered:

The God of our fathers must become “our God.”

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