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So I prayed for 5 minutes this morning on the train and this is what happened. Recently a friend suggested that I read Exodus and Revelation to search for a connection there. So I've been reading Exodus. During my prayer time I was reminded of all of the abuses of Pharaoh against the children of Israel and how when they got their freedom and were in the wilderness they cried out to RETURN to that slavery rather than face the fear of the unknown.
So I prayed for 5 minutes this morning on the train and this is what happened. Recently a friend suggested that I read Exodus and Revelation to search for a connection there. So I've been reading Exodus. During my prayer time I was reminded of all of the abuses of Pharaoh against the children of Israel and how when they got their freedom and were in the wilderness they cried out to RETURN to that slavery rather than face the fear of the unknown.
Then God
showed me
my life and the times that I have sought out the shelter of known
slavery rather than walking faithfully into the unknown. It was quite
frightening actually, to see how many God given opportunities I have walked
away from.
I have a few
projects that are 75% done and I see now that it is fear that has prevented me
from finishing the race. Will these projects give me freedom in the ways that I
imagine? I have no idea. But just facing them faithfully will be walking in
freedom in and of itself.
Like the
Israelites... the time that we spend in the bondage of slavery or the limbo of
the wilderness is determined by our courage to walk boldly into the Promised
Land and claim our inheritance. We should, like Joshua and Caleb, walk boldly,
knowing that God is with us.
20 The LORD replied, “I have forgiven them, as you
asked. 21 Nevertheless, as surely as I live and as surely
as the glory of the LORD fills the whole earth, 22 not one of those who saw my glory and the signs I
performed in Egypt and in the wilderness but who disobeyed me and tested me ten
times— 23 not one of them will ever see the land I promised
on oath to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with contempt will ever
see it. 24 But because my servant Caleb has a different
spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went
to, and his descendants will inherit it. 25 Since the Amalekites and the Canaanites are
living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and set out toward the desert along
the route to the Red Sea.[a]” – Numbers 14:20-25
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