When God freed Israel from their slavery in Egypt, He led them into the wilderness, where a miraculous supply of manna served as the “menu.” However, the Israelites began to complain that they were unable to savor the variety of foods they had consumed in Egypt. God promised to feed this great company meat for a month in response to their complaints. Imagine feeding this huge congregation, if feeding 5,000 seems difficult. Moses expressed his concerns to God with the same thoughts:

Israel thanked God for the strength with which He freed them from their slavery in Egypt. They admitted that their deliverance demonstrated that God was the only God and that the word of their deliverance would frighten people in other nations. They saw this deliverance as evidence of God’s power and confirmation that they would enter the land as promised. Indeed, God’s omnipotence was demonstrated by the exodus.

Later, Moses would tell the second generation of Israelites about this significant event and the power of God that it demonstrated:

32 “Indeed, inquire from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that were before you, since the day that God created man on earth.” Has [anything] been done like this extraordinary thing, or has [anything] been heard like it? 33 Has anyone else survived hearing God’s voice from the midst of the fire in the same way that you have? 34 Or, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes, has a god attempted to go and take a nation from within another nation through trials, signs and wonders, war, a strong hand, an outstretched arm, and great terrors? 35 The LORD was demonstrated to you so that you might understand that He is God; Other than Him, there is no one else. 36 He let you hear His voice to discipline you from the heavens; and while you were still on earth, He let you see His enormous fire and spoke to you through the blaze. 37 He chose their children to follow in their father’s footsteps because He loved them. Deuteronomy 4:32–37 says, “And He personally brought you from Egypt by His great power.”

Thus in the later books of the Hebrew Scripture, the production of the world and the making of the country Israel (through the departure) turns into a significant topic. These occurrences and the power of God to which they testify become the foundation for Israel’s hope and praise in the Psalms:

The power of God cannot be denied by anyone who takes the Bible seriously. God is all-powerful; He has all the power. In the past, men’s lives were changed by this truth, and it still can be today. Permit me to suggest a few ways that the power of God intersects with our current lives.

(1) Fearing, honoring, and serving God alone ought to be our first action in light of God’s power.

1 Then, God said all of these things, “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.” 2 After that, God spoke all of these words. 3 You will not worship any other gods than Me. 4 You are not allowed to construct an idol or any representation of the heavens above, the earth below, or the water beneath the earth. 5 You are not to serve or worship them; Because I, the LORD, your God, am a resentful God, I inflict the wrongs of the fathers on the children, the third and fourth generations of those who despise Me, but I am kind to thousands of people who love and keep My commands. 7 “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain,” according to Exodus 20:1–7; Also see Joshua 4:23–24; Psalm 115:1-15).