Exodus 17

Today's section of Scripture was two-fold, but there is a specific thing I picked up on in the second half that I want to write about. Here we have a battle going on between the Israelites and a group that attacked them, and whenever Moses raised the staff of God the battle would go in their favor. If he lowered it, though, they would begin to lose. This showed that God was the one in charge, and He was fighting for them. In a similar way we need to depend on God to fight for us when we alone are not strong enough - and just like Moses, when we grow tired we need godly friends whom we can depend on to help us through and support us. Community is really an important theme in the Bible, and we need to work together as Christians to build each other up and reach out to those who don't know Jesus. We are each just a part of the body of Christ, and by ourselves cannot do much - but together, with Jesus as the head, we are invincible.