Today I was continuing my Bible reading plan and came across Exodus 6:6-9 (The Message)…
"I am God.
I will bring you out from under the cruel hard labor of Egypt. I willI will redeem you, intervening with great acts
of judgment. I’ll take you as my own people and I’ll be God to you.
You’ll know that I am God,
rescue you from slavery. your
God who brings you out from under the cruel hard labor of Egypt. I’ll
bring you into the land that I promised to give Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob and give it to you as your own country. I AM God. "But when Moses delivered this message to the Israelites, they didn’t
even hear him—they were that beaten down in spirit by the harsh slave
conditions.
Notice sandwiched between God saying "I AM" is this repeated heart cry of all that God wants to do for them. Yet the culture in which the children of Israel were apart of had beaten down their spirit to the point where they didn’t hear his words of freedom.
Doesn’t it feel like that at times today? You so desperately want people to really hear the message of the gospel, yet for various reasons they are deaf to its call. You know what I love about this story? God doesn’t stop loving just because we stop listening. God did all that he said he would do in-spite of their inability to hear what He wanted to do (sure at times it took a little longer, but that is another story).
Equally powerful to the proclamation of the gospel is the demonstration of the gospel.
