Digging Deeper

“Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Let my people go,  so that they may worship me.” -Exodus 8: 1

Have you ever felt that pang in your heart about some terrible injustice and wanted to do something but the odds were really stacked against you? Let me bring it home to you. How about a landlord, neighbor, relative, or boss?  Do you ever see things that just aren’t right and you know something needs to change? So what do you do, call the shop steward, go to HR, call the city commission? Moses and Aaron went to God.  The fight  or freedom is not a new one. The people of Israel had worked in abject poverty and horrible working  conditions for years under the rule of the Pharaoh. Carcasses of old women just pushed aside for the monumental task of building for the Pharaoh’s own worship of himself. There were children without parents  and starving to death. Maggots and flies are astounding because of the unclean conditions and the rotting   corpses not to mention violating their very belief system of sanctity of life. One man with a mission from God changed all that. God fought the Egyptians with plagues and eventually decimated the armies of Pharaoh  at the bottom of a really deep channel. I have some really great pictures of an archeological expedition that found chariots and bones of hundreds of people of possibly Egyptian dissent at the bottom of a channel in 1600 feet of water. (Did you think this stuff was all made up?) I digress! When confronted with terrible injustice, first, go to God. Get His advice first. Jehoshaphat did that, Moses did that, Elijah etc. You get the picture. Some of you have a great heart for missions, some for kids and young people, others of you want to see your neighborhoods change. God will change them from the inside out…starting with you!  I could tell you endless accounts of people who beat the odds but this is not about them. They already proved who God is in their life. What about you? Trust Him! He loves that kind of stuff. That’s why we say around the Ridge, “It’s a God thing”  Duh!

Prayer:  Father, I believe you can do anything in my life and my world, change me to listen to your voice and give me the courage to proceed from there…

bt Rick Drake