Surrounded by Fish
Mrs. Moses Diary “Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.” Exodus 14:21-22 (NIV) by Bonnie Beardsley Dear Diary, Pharaoh let us go after the last plague. Even the Egyptians were glad that we were leaving. We could have gone a shorter way when we left but that was not the way God showed with the pillar of fire and cloud for us to go. It led us to the Red Sea. Pharaoh must have changed his mind. His army came after us. The people started to panic. Then the pillar of fire and the cloud moved from in...
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Mrs. Moses Diary “Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders.” Numbers 13:2 (NIV) by Bonnie Beardsley Dear Diary, So we are off to the land of milk and honey with one of God’s angels leading the way and fighting for us. When we reached the border, Moses picked one man from each tribe plus Caleb and Joshua to go and check out the land. They were gone for forty days—the same number of days Moses was on the mountain receiving the Ten Commandments and the number of days it rained while Noah was in the ark. When they returned, two men carried a bunch of grapes on a pole between them. They also brought back figs and pomegranates. They described the...
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Mrs. Moses Diary “Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.” Exodus 32:7 (AMP) by Bonnie Beardsley Dear Diary, When Moses told me the LORD sent him down the mountain because the people have corrupted themselves, all I could think of is a little child covered completely in mud. Moses was so upset when he saw what was going on, he threw the tablets God had given him on the ground at the foot of the mountain. The tablets broke. He took Aaron aside to find out what happened. Why had he sinned so greatly against God? Moses had been on the mountain forty days. The people believed he died. Aaron blamed Moses because he was away so long. Aaron explained...
Read MoreThe Ten Commandments
Mrs. Moses Diary “The people all responded together, ‘We will do everything the Lord has said.’ So Moses brought their answer back to the Lord.” Exodus 17:9b (NIV) by Bonnie Beardsley Dear Diary, It has been three months and one day since we have left Egypt. We’re camped in front of Mount Sinai. Moses went to talk with God on the mountain. There was a lot of lightning and thunder. People were afraid to go near the mountain. Moses was gone for forty days. He brought back to tablets, and on them the Ten Commandments: (Exodus 20 NIV) 3 “You shall have no other gods before me. “There is only one God.” 4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the...
Read MoreHelp, I Can’t Hold My Arms Up
Mrs. Moses Diary “Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands.” Exodus 17:9b (NIV) by Bonnie Beardsley Dear Diary, We set up camp at Rephidim. Everything was going great until the Amalekites attacked us. It was scary. I was afraid that our two sons would get hurt or killed. Moses told Joshua to gather some men from the tribes to fight the next morning. I’m glad he chose Joshua to lead them into battle. He’s a good, strong leader. Lately I’ve noticed Moses talking a lot about his staff. It was his staff that God turned into a snake. Moses used that staff to make the Nile undrinkable. He parted the Red Sea with it. The other day when he struck the rock and water came out of it, the staff was still his....
Read MoreWater from a Rock
Mrs. Moses Diary “So they quarreled with Moses and said, ‘Give us water to drink.’” Exodus 17:2 (NIV) by Bonnie Beardsley Dear Diary, It would be nice if these people were thankful for once. God does something big for them and the next day they complain about something else. This time they complained again about water and even asked “Is the Lord with us or not?” They were so out of control over it that Moses thought they’d throw stones at him. Moses prayed to God, telling Him how upset the people were over lack of water and that he feared for his life. God told him what He was going to do. Moses obeyed and did what God said. He gathered the leaders of each tribe. God led Moses and the...
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