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No Longer Slaves

Deuteronomy 1:30-32
“The Lord your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’ Yet, for all that, you did not believe the Lord your God.”
Even after all of the miraculous things the Lord did to save the Israelites, they still had little faith in Him. He freed them from Pharaoh, He parted the Red Sea, He gave them water from a rock to drink and provided them daily with manna to eat. In the same manner, the Lord set before them a land with which all they needed to do was go in and possess it but yet they were reluctant. Why? Because they did not trust that the promise of the Lord was genuine. Today, the same remains. Regardless of what the Lord has done to bring me where I am, I lose sight of His goodness and mercy and dwell on the lies of the enemy instead. I am reluctant to believe that Jeremiah 29:11 reads truth even after the many victories He has allowed me to overcome during my time here. I am very much like the Israelites who disregard the work that the Lord has done, wishing to be back in captivity in Egypt. But what did Egypt offer them other than empty promises and broken lives? The Lord has freed me from Egypt and has called me to pick up my mat and walk. Of course I ponder on the idea that maybe I was happy in my misery, that I enjoyed my life of bondage, but these are sly tacts that the enemy uses to keep me from moving forward, to keep me from seeing all that the Lord has done to provide me with the means to be here, now. Isaiah 12:2 says, “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid.” I will trust and not be afraid, dwelling in His promises and the truth that He will never leave me nor forsake me.

Application
Today, I will write Jeremiah 29:11 on a notecard and place it on the mirror in my room as a reminder that He is in control. 

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