Day 34 - Delivered from Bondage!

Today's Reading: Ex. 19-20 and Matt. 25

There are so many gold nuggets packed in these three chapters, it's difficult to decide what to comment on. Wow!

In Exodus 20, we find that the people are afraid of God and His thundering and lightenings. They were catching a glimpse of God and His majesty. Today we have lost sight of His glory and His majesty and we aren't afraid anymore! We don't respect God or look in awe at His presence, or at His laws.

Moses told Israel, "Fear not, for God is come to prove you, and that his fear maybe before your faces that ye sin not!" The problem is that we don't fear God anymore! That's why our lives as a church (even while living under pretension of godliness) are so compromised and full of sin!

It was convicted as I read the Exodus 20:2. "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." Following are the 10 commandments.

I was thinking, that if we truly realized the "bondage of sin" God has delivered us from... we would not struggle in honoring His 10 Commandments, or any other commands laid out in Scripture... but the problem is, we really don't understand the bondage that we've been rescued from, or what our Redeemer has sacrificed on our behalf... and the reason the commands have been given are not to hinder our freedom, but to help us truly shine as a light for God's glory.

Love this thought from Inspiration:

"Once a race of slaves amid a nation of idolaters, the Israelites were delivered from bondage, and became a light in the desert. If God’s people who lived in the Old Testament dispensation were to shine out brightly upon a world of idolaters, his people who live in this age, having so many more privileges and so much greater light, should shine forth still more brightly, diffusing light everywhere. {RH July 7, 1903, par. 1}

Lord, help us to recognize afresh the glorious God that we serve. Help us to sense afresh the beauty of Your majesty, and the amazing grace bestowed on our behalf... the bondage that we've been delivered from so we can be a light to the world lost in darkness...

Tomorrow's Reading: Ex. 21-22 and Psalm 17