Readers Guide: “The Word for Today” Thursday, October 4, 2012 Read – Exodus 5 & 6 The next few chapters of Exodus unfold for us the intense struggle though which the people of God are set free from bondage in Egypt. This story of the freeing of God’s people is at the very heart of the Old Testament message – it is the most important story of God’s Old Testament people! There are also many things in this story that are hard for us to understand – rods turning into snakes, plagues of a strange nature, and maybe most troubling of all, talk of the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart. Chapters 5 & 6 introduce us to the drama. The freeing of God’s people will be no small task. The Egyptians certainly will not give up easily. And the very people who are being freed will offer resistance. Moses will be tested and so will God. But God prevails.