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Is it Time to Leave

Your Egypt?

 

⁸ Now a new king

arose over Egypt,

who did not know Joseph. 

⁹ He said to his people ...

¹⁰ “Come, let us deal shrewdly

with them, or they will ... join

our enemies and fight against us ...” 

¹¹ Therefore they set taskmasters

over them to oppress them

with forced labor.

Exodus 1

“Taskmasters.” “Oppress them.” “With forced labor.” Those are hard words.

 

The Israelites were once in bondage in Egypt. It was slavery, and God helped them escape.

 

Do you have enslavements in your life? God wants to help you escape!

 

Freedom is one of God’s greatest passions for you in your life. Therefore, his servants cheer, “For freedom Christ has set us free.” ^{Galatians 5:1} God wants you to discover the courage, hope, and light that freedom brings. He prays that you will experience the power, peace, and purpose that liberty provides. Like the Israelites, God want to bring you to your Promised Land. 

 

“Go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God gives you to possess,” are the heavenly words at the end of the Exodus. ^{see Joshua 1:11} Your Promised Land is your inheritance, your destiny. “But the journey of a thousand miles starts with a single …”

 

I hate clichés. But it is true. If you want to be free, you’ve got to take the first step. So where do we start? Unfortunately this journey starts in the same place the Israelites started – in a foreign land (Egypt).

 

Child of God, you were made for heaven … but you are living in an alien world. It’s a land of sin and pain. It’s a whole world of bondage and death. And the question is … How far do you feel like you're living from your Promised Land? How many miles do you feel like you’re living from the destiny that God has in mind for you? How do you describe living in this alien world?

 

What we must eventually conquer – if we want to escape that which is enslaving us – are the sins and bad habits that draw us away from our destiny. How many of our own dysfunctions carry us to our own personal Egypt – the land of bondage? How many of the chains in our lives come from our own weaknesses and failures? Are insecurities and fears tying you in knots? Like every Israelite at the beginning of the story, you have been born in Egypt; you have been planted and rooted far away from the destiny that God has planned for you.

 

And you know this.

 

Right?

 

You probably know precisely what many of the compromises and patterns are that you need to break. But do you believe that God has something better in store? It’s called the Promised Land. It your Promised Land. There’s a destiny awaiting you … and it’s here on this earth! “Go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God gives you to possess.” ^{Joshua 1:11}

 

In Christ's Love,

a guy who want to

be called “Houdini”

 

(I’m ready to escape

my bondages and discover

God’s Promised Land!)