Exodus 4:27-31– God deserves our total adoration

Reading these last five verses of Exodus 4 assures us that God always fulfills what He says. We can see that everything He told Moses came to pass. Be it his meeting with Aaron in the wilderness, the acceptance, the belief of the elders of Israel and the three signs that he was told to do to authenticate his calling. All it required was for Moses to do what he was instructed. And he did. Nothing can prevent what God had said from happening. That’s our sure hope in the journey with Him.

Earlier, God told Moses that Aaron was going to be in the wilderness and he was to go and meet him there. Here in Exodus 4:27, God also worked on Aaron and told him to go out and meet his brother, Moses, at the mountain of God, which presumably was Horeb. There they had a heartwarming meeting and Aaron was kept apprised of all that God had instructed Moses to say and do. Once this was done, together they made their way to Egypt and met the elders of Israel. There Aaron as Moses’ spokesman began. He told the elders of all that Moses had seen and heard. Then Moses performed the three signs, the snake, the leprous hand and the blood. On seeing the signs, every elder believed as God had told Moses. Come to think about it, the fear Moses had about the people not believing in him was needless. They did not even ask a question but wholeheartedly accepted Moses. He spent so much time with God back and forth, giving excuses and imagining what would happen. Every fear of his proved to be unfounded. And as God said, the people believed him without even a whimper.   

Here’s a word about fear, it can make us spend needless energy. It is the result of a failure to trust God and His word. Have you noticed that like Moses, most of our struggles always happen during decision-making time? When we are choosing and deciding whether to follow God, that’s when we often have to grapple. Once we have made up our mind to just act as God has instructed, we find everything just falls into place. This is when we find to our delight, that obeying and glorifying God is indeed the best thing to do in life.

So right there in Egypt, long before the liberation had begun, it must have dawned upon the elders of Israel that their prayers did not go in vain. God indeed had heard their cries and seen their miseries. So, with renewed hope, they bowed down and worshipped God. Nothing can be more appropriate in the light of all that God had begun to do. They now could see that God indeed deserved to be worshipped, revered and honored. This is the same God whom we now worship. He is sovereign and He has the whole world in His hand. There is not a single thing concerning His people, we included, that He does not know or will not do something about. This God desires our worship. The best decision we will ever make and must make is to bow to worship Him and Him alone.