What a hell of a life, but we are still blessed.

What a hell of a life, but we are still blessed.
7 The LORD said, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt." Exodus 3:7-10

I have been through ups and downs, heartaches and getting stabbed in the back by people I thought were my friend, but God always comes through to help me up through anything that I have fallen in.

God is a gracious God to hear our prayers and wipe our tears to let us know he is working on our situation.

I thought I was the only man to cry but after hearing other men say they have cried too, I felt not ashame.

We mustn’t ever believe that God doesn’t care about us just because He’s letting us face tough situations. God always has a plan for our lives.

The burning bush is an amazing biblical phenomenon. It burned for God yet didn’t burn out - a good example for us to follow. I remember veteran pastors in my youth saying, "I’d rather burn out for Jesus than rust out for the devil." The burning bush teaches us those aren’t the only options. We can burn for God without burning out!

When Moses turned aside to examine the bush more closely God called to him. How important it is to stop and listen when God is trying to get our attention! What wonderful opportunities in life have we missed because we did not pause to carefully consider what God has to say to us?

It certainly must have been an electrifying experience for Moses to hear the voice of God from the bush. After 3,000 years it’s still powerful to read about. And after 3,000 years it’s important to realize that God still desires to communicate with us on an individual basis!

The God who cares about us reveals several things about Himself in this story.

For one thing, the God who cares about us is a holy God.

Why did God tell Moses that coming into His presence meant he was on "holy ground", and what did this have to do with His deliverance of His people from their oppression?

The primary application of the word "holy" in Scripture is "set apart". God is "set apart" from us because of our sins. Now don’t let that cause you to run and hide from God because that’s not what He desires us to do. He has done great things to bring us back to Him in spite of our sin.

Holiness is not just an attribute of God - it is His very essence. In both the Old and New Testaments the Bible describes God as "holy, holy, holy." (Isaiah 6:3; Revelation 4:8)

The Bible does not describe any other facet of God’s character this way. The Bible does not say God is "love, love, love", or "mercy, mercy, mercy".

Perhaps this is a reference to the Trinity. God the Father is holy. God the Son is holy. God the Spirit is Holy. There is no questioning the preminence and significance God’s holy essence.

Why would God make this the primary way he revealed Himself to Moses as in many other scriptures? It is because God cannot lead His people from bondage to blessings until He first deals with the sins that bind them. His holiness demands it. Sin, more than anything else, is what binds us.

It was indeed sinful for the Egyptians to enslave their fellow men. But it is not often the sins of others than enslave us and blockade the blessings of God on our lives.

We have to watch what we do in our everyday lives and not to commit sin to keep from getting our blessings, thats why I pray " Dear Lord forgive me for any sins knowingly and unknowingly that I might have
committed and to keep me on the straight road to you in the name of Jesus I pray Amen"

"Behold the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face fom you, that he will not hear." (Isaiah 59:1-2)

God is looking, listening, and responding to our needs! He is personally involved. But, you may ask, why did He send Moses?

Because the God who cares about us commissions people to participate in His purpose!

"I am sending you to Pharoah Moses - to bring my people out of Egypt." (Exodus 3:10)

Moses may have believed that because of his past failures or because of his shortcomings, that he wasn’t qualified to go. "Who am I, that I should go to Pharoah?"

It wasn’t who Moses was - it was who God was that mattered!

We shouldn’t focus on our past, our problems, or our shortcomings when we’re trying to solve a problem - we should focus on God. He wants to use us to be a part of the solution to the problems in our lives and in the lives of others.

Where is your focus today?

I know we go through some hard times that seem like hell but do know we are very blessed to have God on our side.

God is a holy God. If we will deal with sin we may have His blessing. If we deny our sin or try to ignore it or think it doesn’t get in the way, we’re deceiving ourselves. (1 John 1)

God is a compassionate God. He sees our problems and cares about our suffering.

The God who cares about us wants to use us to solve problems and bless others. Amen

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