Thursday // 21st March 2024
A long walk to nowhere!
If you fail under pressure, your strength is too small.
Proverbs 24:10 NLT
When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.” A slave mentality can reject God’s promise. These people had been slaves in Egypt for 430 years. Israel was protected by the oppressor, yet lived in oppression. Israel was not a warring people. They were conditioned to be servants. Remember, moving to another city, country or continent may change your circumstances, but it doesn’t change you. Their lives were strictly controlled, and their days were spent making bricks to build Egypt’s fine houses and famous pyramids. They also constructed Egypt’s aqueducts for irrigation, and they farmed wheat and corn in the desert. But none of it was their own. They were told what to do, when to do it and where to do it every day of their lives for more than four hundred years.
When God brought them deliverance, the Hebrews couldn’t handle it, and a one-month walk to freedom turned into a forty- year sojourn to nowhere. Israelites were used to others doing their thinking for them, and when times got tough, they bitterly complained- “We want to go back to Egypt! We want to go home! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost-also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic” (Numbers 11:5)
AS A MAN THINKS IN His HEART, So Is HE. You are made of the sumtotal of the choices and decisions you make every day.
Your brother in Christ,
Apostle Ashok Martin