[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Take hold of the plumbline immediately

[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Get moving

By Oke Chinye

Read: Exodus 14:1-31 

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Meditation verse: 

“Then the Lord said to Moses, “why are you crying out to me? Tell the people to  get moving!” (Exodus 14:15).

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God had told the children of Israel through Moses, that He would deliver them  from the oppression of the Egyptians and take them to the promised land. He repeatedly told them how beautiful and rich the land was; a land flowing with  milk and honey. But He did not give them the details of how they would get  there or what obstacles they would encounter. As they began the journey, it was  one issue after the other. Every time they encountered a hurdle, they completely forgot God’s promise to get them to the promised land. They murmured against God and complained to their leader Moses. 

The final straw was when the red sea was before them, whilst the Egyptians chased behind with all the forces in Pharoah’s army. This time around, they  completely lost it. “They cried out to the Lord and said to Moses, “Because there  were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why  have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? Is this not the word that  we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For  it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die  in the wilderness” (Exodus 14:11-12). And God spoke to Moses, “why are you  crying out to me? Tell the people to get moving!”. In order words, God was asking  them “have I not promised you that I would get you to the promised land? Why  do you still doubt my ability? Since God had given them His word, why did they  not simply enquire from Him how they would get across the red sea? 

What has God promised you? And what are the hurdles you are currently faced  with that is instilling some doubt in you? God in His wisdom does not give us the details, but if He has spoken it is guaranteed. “God is not a man, that He should  lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or  has He spoken, and will He not make it good? (Numbers 23:19). And Romans  11:29 says, “For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable”. So, instead of  murmuring or doubting, simply ask “What next God?”, then get moving with the light He gives you, no matter how dim it may seem. He always gives just enough  light for the step we are on.

 

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IN HIS PRESENCE is written by Pst (Mrs) Oke Chinye, Founder of The Rock Teaching Ministry (TRTM).

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