You just might be planting a seed in someone who will affect many others and those of future generations. At the beginning of my gardening journey, I’d wake up early and run to my vegetable garden to see if anything had sprouted. So, today, make it a point to bear witness to someone of what the Father has done for you and your family. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. In turn they propagate the truth to those who follow them and so it fulfills what was the Psalmist wrote: “I will make Your name to be remembered in all generations therefore the people shall praise You forever and ever (Psalm 45:17). As His witnesses we are to testify of what we have seen, heard and learned of the Almighty to our children and their children. This was the call that was given to Israel as a nation and it was the charge presented to Messiah’s disciples. Hence, the phrase, “And you will KNOW that I am the LORD.”īeing witnesses of our Father and His Son is one of our primary duties. In other words, their understanding of the Almighty would not be based on what their elders had passed along to them - they would be the ones to tell others of what they witnessed first hand. The Exodus generation would bear witness of the wonderful things that God had performed to ensuing generations. Yet when they did see these “mighty things” God performed on their behalf, it had an enduring effect. 1 Peter 2:20 BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Samuel 35 Luke 14:2535. “And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.” (Exodus 14:31) KEY VERSE: If you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. He always had questionsusually real stumpers. 3 Our Daily Bread Ministries, God Reigns: Living Out the Kingdom of God, Chapter 2: Will We Take Jesus Seriously, available at. people out there, on their terms, not mine. They certainly knew about Him but did they really know Him? According to Scripture, only at the crossing of the Red Sea would they truly display faith: Since it was the week after Easter, our five-year-old son, Wyatt, had heard plenty of resurrection talk. First, the Step makes me leave the safety of A.A., so that I may deal with non-A.A. Our Daily Bread is a tool of salvaging one’s soul from the shackles of darkness. It is rooted and has in-depth of God’s knowledge for mankind to benefit. It would seem that there were many among His people who lacked the proper faith in God. Our Daily Bread Devotional is a daily routine for Christians who yearn for God’s presence in their lives. It is also fair to say that the plagues upon Egypt would have the same effect upon Israel - they, too, would know that He is the LORD. The pressure increased as the culmination of God’s judgment upon the gods of Egypt drew near and, in the end, Pharaoh and all of Egypt would know that the LORD is God. Now the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants, that I may show these signs of Mine before him, and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and your son’s son the mighty things I have done in Egypt, and My signs which I have done among them, that you may know that I am the Lord.” (Exodus 10:1-2)Īs events continued to unfold, it became increasingly difficult for Pharaoh and his courtiers to be so presumptuous.
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