Which side of God’s memory are you on? In the account we read in 1 Samuel, this is about 445 years or so after the events had happened back in Exodus 17.

Often God is portrayed as an angry God, one who is just out to get you and hurt you. But the God of the Bible describes himself here to Moses as one who is ‘slow to anger’, compassionate and gracious.

Pharaoh was defying God. He thought he was fighting Moses, but God was his enemy. The sad part about it was that it seemed that the people in his court ...