Reformed Devotionals Daily Podcast

Note: This article is an AI-generated adaptation of a spoken transcript and may not fully capture the nuances of the original presentation. Thanks for reading Reformed Devotionals Daily! This post is public so feel free to share it. The passage from Exodus 8:1-15 introduces the second plague upon Egypt: the plague of frogs. The Lord instructs Moses to go to Pharaoh with a clear message: “Thus says...

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 7:14-24 describes the first of the ten plagues that God brings upon Egypt. The Lord instructs Moses to confront Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the water, standing on the bank of the Nile with the staff that had turned into a s...

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 7:1-13 begins with a striking declaration from the Lord to Moses: “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh...

God Works Through Ordinary People: Exodus 6:14-30 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 6:14-30 presents us with something that might seem tedious at first glance—a genealogy. The text lists the heads of the fathers’ houses, beginning with Reuben’s sons: Hanuk, Palu, Hezron...

Anchored in God’s Faithfulness: Exodus 6 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 6 opens with God speaking to Moses in a moment of deep discouragement. The Lord declares: “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a st...

Today we’re in Exodus chapter 5, and this is where things take a turn that nobody expected. Let me read the passage. This is Exodus 5:1-23, and I’m going to read selected verses: Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’” But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey h...

Welcome to the first ever video episode of Reformed Devotionals Daily. I thought we could try this, and so I’d love to hear your thoughts on how you found this. That is partly why this week’s devos were delayed. Today we’re in Exodus chapter 4, and we’re looking at Moses finally taking that step of obedience after everything God has said to him. Let me read the passage. This is Exodus 4:18-31: Mos...

Exodus 4:1–17 (ESV) Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’” The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.” And he said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it. But the Lord said to Moses, “Put out your hand and catch...

Exodus 3:13–22 (ESV) Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The Lord, the God of your...

Exodus 3:1–12 (ESV) Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see...

Exodus 2:23–25 (ESV) During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel—and God knew. These verses might be brief, but they carry so much w...

Exodus 2:11–22 (ESV) One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together. And he said to the man in the wrong, ‘Why do you str...

Exodus 2:1–10 (ESV) Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank. And his si...

Exodus 1:15–22 (ESV) “Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, ‘When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.’ But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live. So the...

Exodus 1:8–14 (ESV) “ Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, ‘Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.’ Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy b...

Exodus 1:1–7 (ESV) “These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt. Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation. But the people of Israel were fruitful a...

Have you ever felt trapped in a situation you couldn’t escape? Maybe not by chains or walls, but by guilt, fear, or circumstances that feel too strong for you. That feeling of captivity is something the people of Israel knew very well and it’s where the story of Exodus begins. Before we open the first chapter, let’s take a few minutes to understand where we are in the Bible’s story — and what God...

The book of Genesis began with creation and blessing, but it ends in Egypt, with coffins and waiting. This is the end of the book of beginnings. As scripture unfolds from here we will see how God will use this beginning to bring about the promises he makes here at the beginning. That Israel will become a great nation, that they will be given a land, and that all the world will be blessed through t...

Sometimes fear has a way of sneaking back in, even after years have passed. In this passage we see Joseph’s brothers, who have lived under his kindness for a long time start fearing for their future. It seems as if once Jacob their father died, they start thinking that Joseph will now take revenge on them. The protection of their father’s presence is removed, and so they feel their old guilt resur...

Grief is part of life. Virtually every single person to ever live will have to carry the burden of grief at some point in their lives. It is one of the heaviest burdens we carry. Even when we know the promises of God, death still stings. In this passage, we see Joseph and his brothers walk through the burden of losing their father. We see their grief. But we are also reminded even in their grief t...

There’s something deeply human about wanting to know where we will be laid to rest. Personally, I don’t really care what you do with my body after I am gone. If God can resurrect people from the dead, he can surely gather my ashes from wherever they have been scattered… But many people do care about what happens to their bodies. In Jacob, we see someone who wants even his death to be tied to God’s...

Before Jacob passes away and falls from the picture of God’s covenant story, he steps in as a prophet for what will happen in Israel. He speaks about the future of each tribe, about the path Israel will take, and about what it will all mean. And so we need to pay attention to these words, because ultimately they point us to Jesus. Let’s have a look. Genesis 49:1–28 (ESV) Then Jacob called his sons...

There’s something powerful about the last words of someone’s life. When someone is on their deathbed and they call the family together because they know their time is short, everyone waits with bated breath. They know what is about to be said is going to be important. That this will show what matters most to the dying person. Often these last words will set the course of a person’s life. And so as...

Have you ever noticed that when you are away from home for a long time you eventually feel a bit cabin-fever-ish? I remember going on holidays with my family for a month once, and towards the last week, I just could not wait to get home. While the trip itself was fantastic, there’s a deep human longing in our hearts to know where we belong. To have and to be home. That’s what this passage is all a...

Because we live in a prosperous capitalist world, money is often the source of our security. When we have it, we feel safe, we feel more courageous, we are more willing to take on risks and so on. But when we don’t have it, the lack of money becomes a source of fear. We feel exposed, we feel as if we need to find some way to provide for ourselves. But what if there was a greater source of provisio...