Greetings to you all in the name of our Risen Lord! I had a pretty great day today. I woke up early to finish studying for my test, and then went and took my test. I feel like I did pretty well on it but it all depends on how subjectively he grades the essays and short answers. Then I knocked out a little homework before my next class. Then after classes I got things ready for supper and then went to my golf meet. It was the first golf meet of the season and I was kind of nervous to be honest. However, the other team only brought four guys so he played our top four. That left one other guy and me so we played against each other in tournament style. It was fun since it was just the two of us and we weren't really playing for anything other than pride. It was match style which means that it is purely the number of holes that you win, not your total score. I ended up beating him five holes, he beat me on two and we tied on two. As far as overall score goes, I beat him by seven strokes. I started off with a double bogie because I had three chips. However, the second hole is a par three and I was sitting off the green about fifteen feet and I chipped in for a birdie. After that, my round began to come together quite nice. I drove the green on a par four that was 285 yards. I missed the eagle put but saved birdie. The only downer was it took three hours to play nine holes because the two foursomes in front of us playing in the actual tournament took forever on each hole. On holes 7 and and 8 I kind of fell apart and had a double and a triple bogie but finished with a par to save six over for a 40. I think it was one of the best rounds of the day for the team but it still didn't count for anything other than making me feel good about my golf game. Then Erin and I went over to Chris and Jes's to watch the NCAA National Championship since all three of them are Michigan fans. I grilled supper while they watched the first part of the game. It was a fun evening of all of us hanging out even though Michigan lost.
My thought for the day comes from Exodus class. One of our test questions last Friday was based on Exodus 2:11-14. When we covered this in class, Dr. Egger told us that if you do not properly understand these verses you cannot understand the entire Exodus narrative. When he said this my first thought was he was crazy. What do these verses have to do with the Exodus narrative, they seem so simple and almost unimportant in the grand scheme of things. However, he spent the rest of that class period explaining what he meant and I realized he was right. So now I want to share with you how these few verses have so much more meaning than may be seen at first glance. The most important point of this passage is that it sets up Moses as the representative of God. This is seen in verse 11 when it says that he saw the burden of the Israelites. This parallels chapter 3 verse 7 where the Lord says He has seen the affliction of His people. The next main point of this passage is that when Moses looks one way and then the other way and sees no one, most people think this is just him making sure no one will witness him murder the Egyptian. However, what it is really setting up is the fact that Moses sees a Hebrew being beaten by an Egyptian and he looks all around and sees no one else who will or can step up and help these people. He is going to have to be the one who will help these people. He starts by striking down to death the one who was striking one of his people. This sets up a foreshadow for the fact that God will strike down to death the Egyptians who had for so long oppressed the Israelites. Then as Moses comes to the second conflict in this passage it sets up two more points of importance. The first is when the Israelite asked Moses who made him judge. As you look ahead to the rest of the Exodus story we know that it is God who who makes Moses judge over the people. The second point is when the Israelite asks Moses if he is going to kill them like he killed the Egyptian. This becomes a prominent theme throughout the rest of the Exodus story. As God deals harshly with the Egyptians and other enemies of the Israelites, the Israelites continue to wonder is God going to kill them like He does their opponents. However, we know God time and time again spares their lives and does not kill them. These are the several ways Moses is set up as the representative of God and how this passage really does show some important themes that will last the rest of the Exodus story.
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