Thursday, January 26, 2017

Thurs.’s Devo - Our True Identity

Read: Exodus 2:11-3:22; Matthew 17:10-27; Psalm 22:1-18; Proverbs 5:7-14
Moses could not deny who he was. It was time to be a Hebrew and not an Egyptian so God removed him from his Egyptian nest and sent him on the far side of the world to meet with God. He, like Isaac and Jacob, met his wife by a well and had a son named Gershom which means “a stranger there”. In the midst of that foreign land, Moses met God. There he found out his destiny and who God was. God revealed himself as I AM. He sent him back to Egypt to deliver his people. He told him to meet with the elders of Israel and then the king and ask him to let them take a three-day journey into the desert to offer sacrifices to their God. He told him in advance that the king would not let them go until He struck the land with all kinds for wonders. Then he would let them go. God would cause the Egyptian people to have favor on the Israelites and they would give up their wealth causing them to plunder Egypt.
The disciples asked Jesus why Elijah must come first and Jesus explained that he had already come and they killed him. He was talking about John the Baptist. Then immediately they brought to Jesus a boy who was suffering from seizures. The disciples were not able to heal him. Jesus rebuked them then rebuked the demon and the boy was restored. Jesus was upset that he was about to leave and they still hadn’t learned to trust God to deliver the boy.
When the tax collectors came to collect their taxes, Peter asked Jesus what they would do. Jesus explained that really this earth is God’s and since we are his sons we shouldn’t have to pay taxes but since the officials wouldn’t understand that, they had to pay their taxes. He payed them supernaturally.
Moses had to come to grips with who he was. He was an Israelite, not an Egyptian. We have to come to grips with who we are too - we are God’s child and the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, reigns in us. God will deliver us because we delight in him.
Lord, teach us to walk as your children and not children of the world. Show us our true identities.

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