An Easier Way?

[496 words] The journey to the promised land was a long, hard road. I am not just talking about the forty years in the wilderness. Long before that trial when Abraham didn’t even have a son, God told him that his descendants would suffer many years in another country. “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years” (Gen.15:13). That land was Egypt.  The baby nation of Israel found a warm welcome in Egypt when Joseph was alive. But as years passed things changed. People forgot about what Joseph had done for the country. Then “there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph” (Ex. 1:8). He felt threatened by the growing population of these Hebrews so he “set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens” (Ex….