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Today’s Bible Reading: Exodus 5-7

Today’s Devotional: Exodus 5:1-14

Worshiping the Lord

Exodus 5:1 we see the beginning of God dealing with Pharaoh, God sending his servants to the proud, and God giving his servants no other resources the His Word.

Results

• Challenge & Refusal
• Increased hardship

The world’s views are often the same towards those who desire to have any separation in their lives from who they were before Jesus and who they are now in Christ as a new creation.

Responses are most typically those which challenge and refuse to accept that anything new can, will, or even should happen in the life of someone who has decided to follow Jesus.

Just as Pharaoh’s response to the desire to live a new life in fellowship with God. So to the world’s favorite response to someone who desires to live separate from the culture around them for finding fulfillment and desire to only find fulfillment in Jesus. Is that it’s not Jesus but it’s building something to or for ourselves. Going on an unforgettable vacation, or buying this or that thing you just can’t live without, that is where fulfillment is found.

I have even heard this within the church today. What else is there outside of a Sunday worship service a week. You have too much time on your hands. You need to make bricks says much of the church today. Perhaps you need to be more challenged with making bricks, add more things to your already over burdened schedule, maybe even a university class to set your self apart and above everyone else so that you can become an officer over others in the church. There’s no need to spend anymore time with God than a Sunday morning or maybe Wednesday evening, you need to get out there and find out what the new thing and new approach is to be fulfilled.

Oh my brothers and sisters in Christ how sad a day it is when the church utters these and similar words. A little further in reading we see what the Lord does to the systems of the world when our fulfillment is found in them and not in an ever growing relationship with the Lord. It’s not the children of Israel or even the Egyptians who are judged in Exodus, but it is the gods of Egypt which are judged, God desired to remove the worship of false gods even from the Egyptians but 99% of them wanted only the idols that they had built with their hands to be their fulfillment.