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4-3-15. Exodus 1:1-14. Who could even image how God will work?-my devotional

4-3-15. Exodus 1:1-14. Who could even image how God will work?-my devotional

Kevin E. Jesmer

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How do we interpret hardship and even persecution? Do we have eyes to see what God is doing in our lives? History has shown how that God will multiply his people in the world despite the intrigues of people. God had brought Jacob’s family–70 persons–to Egypt so that he might make them into a great nation. When the dynasty changed, the new king did not remember God’s grace given them through Joseph. The king feared the Hebrews and oppressed them hoping they cold be exploited and controlled. It seems terrible that that these people had to relocate and start again in a foreign country, where they had no history, and no connections, and were subject to prejudice. It is sad that they had to be slaves for hundreds of years. How could this be the will of God? Somehow it was.

 

The persecution backfired. God was with the Israelites, however. They continued to increase in number. 400 years later, since they first came to Egypt, they had become a great multitude of over three million people. Gold is refined in fire. The increased persecution actually became the crucible through which divine refining was going on. The people were becoming as pure gold. Satan may try to crush and destroy the people of God, but God works through persecution to multiply, spread and purify his people. Even in the darkest and most senseless times God is working out his purposes. That is our faith.

 

God is faithful to fulfilling his promises to Abraham. God was going to make his decedents into a great nation. God would multiply them in a different way, an unexpected way, that is totally necessary for them to grow as a great people.

 

How can God establish enough missionaries to serve the needs of the people of this world? God has his purposes for everything. God will be do something to multiply and empower equip his people. God has a great plan to multiply and empower his people and work through them. With God, nothing is impossible. He will raise up his servants in amazing and unexpected ways to make his Gospel known. The purposes of God cannot be thwarted. God will make them happen, just as he made Abraham’s descendants as numerous as sand on the beach and the stars in the sky, despite of their slavery in Egypt.

 




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