Friday Reading: Exodus 14:10-14
Key Verse: Exodus 14:14
14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Devotion:
There are some weeks when the devotions are really hard to write because of the many distractions and events in our lives. I know that some of you will also find it hard to go through the devotions some days… but we need to remember just who we serve and we need to remember the promises that He has made toward us. If we look back when the children of Israel were first led out of Egypt we can see just how they were feeling too. Yes they had just been witnesses to the 10 plagues that swept over the Egyptians because of Pharaoh’s hardness of his heart, but they now felt that they were alone again because of the distractions surrounding them. Well, distractions is probably a bit of an understatement because they had the might of the Egyptian army bearing down on them and they had no place to go. They were the ones who had walked out of Egypt and they were the ones who seemingly had no place to go. But God reminded them once again of His power and of His promises toward them. God promised them once again that they would not have to fight their own fight but that He would on their behalf.
There are going to be many times in our lives when we are faced with what we think are insurmountable odds and we may well turn our thoughts against God thinking that He will not stand by us or that He will not stand for us. We need to get rid of those thoughts and be reminded of the consistent promises of our Awesome God. He is the one that has promised never to leave us. He is the one who has promised to give what we ask for in His name. He is the one who continues to make sure that those promises are kept and upheld year after year!
When we think we are at our lowest, when we think that life cannot get any worse, when we think that we are facing the enemy; we need to be able to stand firm on God’s promises knowing that He is with us and knowing that He is going to be right in front of us when we face the toughest of circumstances. The only hard part for us is going to be standing firm and giving God control so that He can do what is best for us. That part never comes easy because we always like to think that we are in control!
Points to Ponder:
Are you worried?
Are you really giving your burden to Christ?