Friday, July 24, 2015

When Famines Come, Where Do You Go?

  “There was a famine in the land {but God said} ‘Do not go down to Egypt’.”
Gen. 26:1-2
Have you or are you facing a famine in your life? Have times become so tough that you don’t know what to do? Christians are not immune to famines in the land. We live along with all men who suffer in the flesh the common ailments of every kind. Paul wrote the Corinthians and told them that we suffer like others and that we are comforted in Christ so that we may offer comfort to others as well. What God doesn’t want to happen to us in our famines is for us to return to Egypt.
Egypt is the place of sin, of abandonment of hope in God, of returning to bondage and forgetting God. After the Exodus, when things were hard in the desert, the Israelites wanted to return to Egypt. When foreign nations threatened the kingdom of Judah, they sought their help in Egypt instead of God. What God said to Isaac He says to all His children, “Don’t go back to Egypt. I will provide.”

Dear Father, In our famines help us to remember Your promises. Amen.


  The Friday Benediction
Until Monday, my friends, may the good God envelop you with His grace; may you prove the common confession of faith, “I believe in the holy Christian church and in the fellowship of the saints”, and may you be enriched with joy and hope as you exercise that confession this weekend.  Amen




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