Scripture - Ex 3:10-12 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt." 11 But Moses said to God,"Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?" 12 So He said,"I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain."
Observation - God is sending Moses back to Egypt to face Pharaoh. Remembering the history of Moses one will find that Moses was being chased out of Egypt for killing one of the Egyptians. He was caught between his life and his calling and was trying to do what was right but missed the mark. Pharaoh wanted to arrest him for his crime - but Moses fled. Now God is sending him back to face the problem and to bring deliverance. Israel can't be delivered without facing the thing that has control over their lives. Pharaoh represents a stronghold over them - represents control over them - represents their oppression - once that is faced there can be freedom - remembering always that God says "I will certainly be with you!"
Application - Too many of us keep running from the thing God wants to deliver us from. He is trying to get us to face our fears, our oppressor, our addiction, our struggles. But instead of facing it we run from it and while running we are kept in bondage to that very thing. It is time to face our oppressor. It is time to look the one thing that has us under its control and tell it to let us go. God said go speak to Pharaoh. We need to tell that thing our God has intended to deliver us and we are on our way out.
Prayer - Father - help me to face the very things that try to control me. Help me to face the things in my life that try to keep me from reaching my greatest potential. Help me to tell it "I am outta here!"
Application - Too many of us keep running from the thing God wants to deliver us from. He is trying to get us to face our fears, our oppressor, our addiction, our struggles. But instead of facing it we run from it and while running we are kept in bondage to that very thing. It is time to face our oppressor. It is time to look the one thing that has us under its control and tell it to let us go. God said go speak to Pharaoh. We need to tell that thing our God has intended to deliver us and we are on our way out.
Prayer - Father - help me to face the very things that try to control me. Help me to face the things in my life that try to keep me from reaching my greatest potential. Help me to tell it "I am outta here!"
