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We read in Revelation (Rev 3:20) that God is at the door knocking, and all we have to do is open and he will come in. My son recently learned how to knock on doors and expects someone to answer and open on the other side. But what if we are not listening for the knocking? We don't know to open the door. Or what if, even worse, we are not in the room or even home to listen? God wants us to invite him in, to hear him, to open the door. May we be awakened on this wake up Wednesday to listen for the knock on the door, even be eagerly waiting for the knock from the other side.
~ Kimberly Edwards, IRSM Secretary and sister of Michelle J. Goff
During the process of transformation, we leave the ugliness and the pain, and move toward freedom. However, if things do not progress exactly as we had hoped, fear takes over and we long to go back to the familiar, no matter how bad things were before.
We are not the only ones to fall into that fearful trap.
The Israelites had it bad in Egypt. They were slaves and the conditions were getting worse. Deliverance came through Moses, but even before they got very far out of Egypt, their hope of deliverance faded and fear screamed louder than faith.
As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord. They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!” (Exodus 14:10-12 NIV)
What are you enslaved to? What aspect of your life needs transformation and a dose of faith, not fear. I encourage you on this Transformational Tuesday with Moses’ response in the next two verses:
Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.” (Exodus 14:13, 14 NIV)
