Christian LivingBy Cos Davis

The Angel of the Lord

Moses’ ordinary day of shepherding near the Mountain of God was suddenly interrupted by a fiery bush, an intense blaze that was so unusual that Moses stopped what he was doing to investigate. What was it that made him want to check this out? He had seen blazing fires before, but he could not understand what was before his wondering eyes; this bush wasn’t being destroyed by the raging flames. So, Moses did what most of us would do. He told himself what he was going to do about the […]

Christian LivingBy Cos Davis

The Blazing Bush

How does God usually get your attention? How does He interrupt your daily routines to try to tell you something or get you to do something you need to do? Does He use the voice of your conscience to chasten you, to redirect your words and actions? Have you been stopped in your tracks by a medical diagnosis, accident, death, financial crisis, or loss of a job? Perhaps it hasn’t been as dramatic as what Moses experienced while shepherding on the Mountain of God, but I think we can all […]

Christian LivingBy Cos Davis

The Mountain of God

Today, we begin considering one of the most significant events in the Old Testament, Moses’s surprise encounter with Yahweh in the wilderness. Exodus 3:1-6 is one of the most significant passages in the Old Testament, filled with graphic detail concerning Moses’ encounter with Yahweh in the wilderness near Mount Horeb. “Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the Lord […]

Christian LivingBy Cos Davis

“Now Moses”

“Now Moses” are the first words of the third chapter of Exodus. At first glance, they appear ordinary, but there is something very unusual about them, something that we don’t want to overlook. It has to do with how the words are positioned in the sentence. The Hebrew language usually places the verb before the noun, while English places the noun before the verb. For example, in the Hebrew Bible, Genesis 1:1 reads, “In beginning to create, God, the heavens and the earth.”  That’s how the Hebrew text reads, verb […]

Christian ParentingBy Cos Davis

The Making of a Great Leader

Are great leaders born or made? I think it is likely some of both. Great leaders are gifted with certain personality traits and develop important skills through failure and perseverance. People do not become great leaders by winning every game or closing every deal. Those who win most of their games and close most of the deals will likely tell you they have learned more about leadership by losing than by winning. Accepting loss and disappointment as a valuable teacher is indispensable to the wisdom they bring to their leadership […]

Christian ParentingBy Cos Davis

God’s Unsearchable Ways

Who can understand the mind of God? We know He is good. We also know He allows bad things to happen to good people. Scripture reminds us to trust that He is working in everything, good and bad, to accomplish His plan. The Lord, speaking through Isaiah 55:8-9, reminds us of the vast expanse between the way we think and act and the way God thinks and acts. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so […]

Christian ParentingBy Cos Davis

God Works to Keep His Promise

Today, we come to the second chapter of Exodus to discover what God will do to keep His plan moving forward. Perhaps we should remind ourselves of what that plan is and some of the things that have brought us to where we are at the close of the first chapter of Exodus. It is beneficial to recall what God’s plan entails, as the entire Bible is somehow related to what God intended to do regarding mankind’s fall in the Garden of Eden. You can review the basic details of […]

Christian ParentingBy Cos Davis

Our Sovereign God

Our God is amazing! We have seen in the magnificent book of Genesis how He has worked in all kinds of human dilemmas and tangled messes to provide the Savior who was alluded to in the confrontation with Satan in the Garden of Eden. He chose Abraham to begin the Jewish nation through which Jesus would eventually come. The Old and New Testaments are a wonderful treasure, documenting God’s work and the future that awaits all who put their trust in Him. My research on these blogs about God’s promises […]

Christian ParentingBy Cos Davis

God’s Enduring Promise (Continued)

What guarantee do we have that God will keep His promises to us? We can trust God to keep His word because of who He is. His character is pure, without flaw or fault. He doesn’t make promises without a commitment to keep them. He never forgets. God’s promises endure even when the persons to whom He made them have passed from the scene. This has been demonstrated throughout the book of Genesis, and it continues through Exodus and the entire Bible. God’s promises endure; nothing can or will happen […]

Christian ParentingBy Cos Davis

God’s Enduring Promise

Today, we continue our trek through the Bible, examining God’s great promise to provide our Savior. In the book of Genesis, we see how God fulfilled His word to bolster faith and confidence in Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph, enabling them to carry out His plan. In the closing chapters of Genesis, we see the passing of Jacob in Egypt at the age of 147, followed by Joseph at the age of 110. All seventy members of Jacob’s family who migrated to Egypt during the famine have died. This is […]