Reformed Devotionals Daily Podcast

When people think about God’s laws, they often picture limits. Restrictions. Heavy burdens. A list of things you cannot do. But Exodus 20 pushes us to rethink that. Because before God gives a single command, He reminds His people who He is and what He has already done for them. He has rescued them. He has carried them. He has brought them out of slavery. And the commands that follow are not shackl...

There are moments in the Christian life where you feel drawn in by God. You feel His kindness. His nearness. His grace. But then, almost in the same breath, you also feel the weight of His holiness. The gap between who He is and who you are becomes painfully clear. And it is easy to wonder how both of those things can be true at the same time. Exodus 19 is one of those moments. God brings His peop...

Quick note here at the start - most people are interacting with these only via the podcast stream, or via the text. So there really doesn’t seem to be much point in making the video versions, and they require quite a bit more work. So I have decided to keep going on the podcast and the text versions, but to drop my video podcast. There are seasons in life where you realise, often slowly, that you...

There are seasons where the fight goes on longer than you thought it would. You believed you could hold yourself together. You believed you could endure. You believed you had enough strength. Then the hours turn into days and the days into months, and you feel yourself slipping. Your arms get tired. Your resolve weakens. Your heart sinks. Exodus 17 shows us a moment exactly like this. It teaches u...

There are moments in life where your expectations of God clash with your experience of God. You thought He would come through sooner. You thought He would answer differently. You thought obedience would lead to relief, not pressure. And when reality does not match what you hoped for, something inside you begins to harden. Exodus 17 shows us that this temptation is not new. Israel does not simply t...

We all have these moments in life where God allows us to feel our need so that we learn again where our help comes from. Hunger has a way of exposing the heart. It reveals what we truly believe about God and what we think we need to survive. Israel has already begun complaining. They have accused God of abandoning them. They have blamed Moses. They have twisted the past into something it never was...

There is something very human about moments where our hearts are filled with faith one day and then crash into fear the next. We can stand in church overwhelmed with gratitude for what God has done, then find ourselves grumbling before lunch the next day. It is shocking how quickly joy evaporates when pressure rises. Exodus shows us we are not the first to fall into this pattern. Israel goes from...

Have you noticed that some of the biggest turning points in life leave you strangely quiet? You come out the other side of something you thought would break you, a diagnosis, a betrayal, a season of fear, a weight you did not think you could carry, and instead of rejoicing, you simply move on. You slip back into routine. You do not stop long enough to recognise that God actually did something extr...

There are points in the Christian life where God deliberately places us in situations that feel impossible. Places where our resources are not enough, where our wisdom is not enough, where our strength is not enough. Places where we come to the end of ourselves. And often our first instinct is panic. We think God has abandoned us, or that we have misheard him, or that something has gone horribly w...

There are moments in the Christian life where the path God takes us on makes no sense to us. We want the straight line, the easy road, the quickest way from slavery to promise. But God, in his wisdom, rarely takes us the way we would choose. And just like Israel, we find that the Lord leads us in ways that feel longer, harder, or slower than we had hoped. The question this passage raises for us is...

It is a remarkable thing that the very first instruction God gives Israel after bringing them out of Egypt is not about warfare, or strategy, or nation building. It is not about how to set up a government or how to defend themselves. The first thing God does is claim them. He tells them that the firstborn belongs to him. He tells them to remember his rescue. And then he tells them to teach their c...

There are moments in Scripture where God slows everything down and draws a line, not to exclude for the sake of exclusion, but to teach his people something about who he is and what it means to belong to him. After the urgency and chaos of Israel’s escape, the passage that follows feels almost jarringly calm. God turns from deliverance to definition. He tells his people what it actually means to b...

There are seasons in life where we feel stuck, where the pressure stays on long after we think things should have changed. We pray, we try, we push, but nothing moves. Then suddenly, almost without warning, the situation breaks open. A door that felt sealed opens. A burden loosens. A way forward appears. That kind of sudden change can feel unsettling, but Exodus 12 shows us that these moments rare...

What Happens When God Finally Says “Enough is Enough”? Exodus 12:29–32 (ESV) At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great...

Will you obey when you don’t understand? Exodus 12:21–28 (ESV) Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb. Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door o...

What Does It Take for Death to Pass Over Us? Exodus 12:1–20 (ESV) The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. And if the house...

When God Draws a Line, How Seriously Do We Take It? Exodus 11:1–10 (ESV) The Lord said to Moses, “Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you away completely. Speak now in the hearing of the people, that they ask, every man of his neighbour and every woman of her neighbour, for silver and gold jeweller...

When God Turns Out the Lights, What Is He Trying to Show Us? Exodus 10:21–29 (ESV) Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.” So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his pla...

Note: This article is an AI-generated adaptation of a spoken transcript and may not fully capture the nuances of the original presentation. How far will God go to break through the stubbornness of the human heart? Well, that’s a question that our text today in Exodus chapter 10 verses one to 20 deals with. So let’s have a look. “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened h...

Note: This article is an AI-generated adaptation of a spoken transcript and may not fully capture the nuances of the original presentation. So what happens when God’s judgment literally falls from the sky, but people still refuse to bow down to him? Well, that’s the question that our text today deals with. So let’s have a look at Exodus chapter 9, verse 22 through to 35. “Then the Lord said to Mos...

Note: This article is an AI-generated adaptation of a spoken transcript and may not fully capture the nuances of the original presentation. Can God show both justice and mercy when His power is overwhelmingly strong? That’s the question our text answers today. And we’re reading from, again, the book of Exodus chapter nine, verses 13 to 21. Let’s have a look. “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Rise up...

Note: This article is an AI-generated adaptation of a spoken transcript and may not fully capture the nuances of the original presentation. What happens when we continually ignore God’s warnings? What happens when His patience reaches a limit? Well, that’s what our text today is all about, so let’s go and have a look. Our text is from Exodus chapter 9 verses 8 through to 12. “And the Lord said to...

Note: This article is an AI-generated adaptation of a spoken transcript and may not fully capture the nuances of the original presentation. What happens when we harden our hearts against God, even after God has given us clear warnings? What happens if we continue to disobey God, even after He’s made it very obvious that there will be consequences? Well, that’s what our text today is dealing with f...

Note: This article is an AI-generated adaptation of a spoken transcript and may not fully capture the nuances of the original presentation. The passage from Exodus 8:22-32 introduces a crucial turning point in the plague narrative: the plague of flies. The Lord instructs Moses to rise early and confront Pharaoh as he goes out to the water, delivering God’s familiar demand: “Thus says the Lord, ‘Le...

Note: This article is an AI-generated adaptation of a spoken transcript and may not fully capture the nuances of the original presentation. The passage from Exodus 8:16-19 describes the third plague upon Egypt: the plague of gnats. The Lord instructs Moses to tell Aaron to stretch out his staff and strike the dust of the earth, so that it may become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt. Aaron ob...