Thursday in Easter

15Verse 15. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well. 16Verse 16. Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock. 17Verse 17. And when some shepherds came along and drove them away, Moses rose up to help them and watered their flock. 18Verse 18. When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?” 19Verse 19. “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they replied. “He even drew water for us and watered the flock.” 20Verse 20. “So where is he?” their father asked. “Why did you leave the man behind? Invite him to have something to eat.” 21Verse 21. Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. 22Verse 22. And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.” 23Verse 23. After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God. 24Verse 24. So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 25Verse 25. God saw the Israelites and took notice.

9Verse 9. But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. 10Verse 10. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 11Verse 11. Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul. 12Verse 12. Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.