God Wants Me to Be Humble
Because He is at work
Exodus 18:10-12
Read the Bible through:
AM - Job 15-17 : PM - Acts 13:14-52
And Jethro said, "Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. (Ex. 18:10)
We need deliverance. We need someone to set us free - not just from the physical, external things that enslave us, not just from our own inability to say no, not just from our insatiable greed or terrible temper or our need to control others. We need deliverance from the consequences of our own choices. That's what enslaves us. We need to break the bonds of our own guilt. Like the children of Israel we need deliverance.
The same God who set Israel free from the slave drivers of Egypt can deliver us from our sin. In that sense the rescue from Egypt can be our story. We can find ourselves in Israel's journey from bondage to freedom, from oppression to release.
When personalized in this way, it's a pilgrimage that starts in the depths of our own minds and hearts and ends in the vast and glorious spiritual freedom of Christ made possible because of the love of God, our Redeemer.
Father, help me never forget that You are able to deliver me
