Imagine yourself born in a country as a slave. All you have known your whole life is work as a slave for someone else’s benefit. You’re not able to make choices about your life and you live in constant fear. Your people have been in this condition for hundreds of years. And even though some talk about a way out, it’s hard to believe.
That’s where the children of Israel were in Egypt. They had been slaves for hundreds of years. How could they even imagine a different life. Then all of a sudden, they had a way out of slavery and had to learn how to live a new life and believe the promises of God for a new way of life in the Promised Land. But, they needed time to transform their mind from Egypt’s ways and the slavery mentality. What should have only been a few days journey to the Promised Land, turned into 40 years and only a few of the original Israelites were still living when they finally entered the Promised Land.
It’s the same with us today. We are born in the world’s system of slavery. We learn about a way of escape and we leave the world, follow Jesus, and find ourselves in the wilderness. The wilderness should be a place where we learn about God’s ways, grow in the spirit and finally leave. But, that’s where most of us stay our whole life. Religion teaches that Jesus is going to return one day and get us out of this place (wilderness) or if we die there, we will be resurrected to a better place. Jesus teaches, however, that He came to bring the Kingdom (Promised Land) now. While we have been wondering around the wilderness waiting on Him to get us out, He has been waiting on us to enter the Kingdom.
Where are you in your life’s journey? What lessons should you be learning in order to learn and grow in God? Finally, how do you actually move into the Promised Land and quit just looking in from the outside?
Bill
Please join me in this discussion – FROM EGYPT TO THE PROMISED LAND, A journey from religion to life – as we compare our walk in life to the Children of Israel and discover the true Gospel of the Kingdom. Make sure that you never miss a post. Sign up to have my my free blog delivered directly to your email.