Imagine being a slave your whole life. Each day you wake up, get out of bed, have a quick breakfast, and spend the rest of the day doing whatever your taskmaster tells you to do. The Israelites were slaves in Egypt for over four hundred years! What do you think they thought about while they made pyramids for the Egyptians? Perhaps some thought about a new pharaoh that would get rid of slavery. Others may have thought about how to escape. One thing we know for sure is that some remembered God and prayed that he would deliver them.

As we learned last week, God saw their suffering and he came up with a plan to save them. Remember the burning bush? Remember when our always-and-forever God called himself “I am who I am” (Ex. 3:14)? This God said to Moses: “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I have come to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of Egypt into a land flowing with milk and honey” (see 3:6–8). God always keeps his promises. Today we learn the exciting story of the promised rescue.