“I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke…I will free you from being slaves…and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm…I will take you…and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke…” Ex. 6:6-7.
This is one of the most compassionate and beautiful promises God gave Moses, His people and every one of us today. It is the promise from a Father to His children of the past, present and future. It was their promise, it is our promise and it will be the promise of all generations who follow.
This morning my heart is tender as I visualize the anchor of this promise. God was giving a future hope of redemption as He spoke to Moses. What Moses could only hear in theory we have seen played out through history. We now know this promise was fulfilled on the cross by those precious arms stretched out redeeming each of us once and for all. We are the recipients of the yoke of sin being removed through the precious blood of Jesus Christ. His weak arms were stretched from one side of the cross to the other in order that we may know Him as Lord and Savior after His death and resurrection.
Every day there are people who live under the yoke of something…addiction, fear, and diseases to name a few. Enslavement to anything is a discouraging and despairing cloud under which we all live at some point in our lives. Satan can even enslave us with our own ministries. He takes whatever is pure, noble and spiritual and distorts, disorients and distracts. His job is to both confuse and deceive us with the message that the work on the cross fell short…that the outstretched arms weren’t enough to liberate…to redeem…to save.
God’s promises are tried, true and eternal. God will free us from all enslavement if we will truly believe that His work on the cross was enough, is enough and will always be enough. As Grandmother said, HE IS LORD OF EVERYTHING OR HE IS LORD OF NOTHING!
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