“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.
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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