Let My People Go! (2)

Jesus offers eternal living water to all who are thirsty. He says come to me all who are weary and heavy laden and "I will give you rest." This is the God who longs to set the captive free. Throughout the history of mankind God has been searching and seeking those whose hearts are turned to Him. Those who long to be out of bondage and slavery. He offers the 'promised land' which is a place of redemption, healing, restoration, and salvation.

I love this God because He desires to be intimately acquainted with His creation. 'Let my people Go' as Moses phrased it became the slogan under which Moses contended for the people of God. If you are in the wilderness, or even still under slavery then there is hope for you! God is in the business of 'letting His people Go'! You must simply come to Him to find forgiveness and reconciliation. He longs to bring freedom. He is freedom! As Daniel prayed in the 9th chapter of the book of Daniel, "O Lord, the great and awesome God who keeps his covenant of love with all who love him and obey his commands, we have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from your commands and laws."

Let My people go!

The heart of God is that all people's would be free from oppression, tyranny, injustice and slavery. It was never Gods idea that anyone should be in bondage or in "Egypt" in the context of slavery and oppression. Adam and Eve were the first to rebel against Gods righteous commands. They had everything they ever wanted or needed, and yet they chose to forsake freedom and enter into oppression and bondage to the world and the enemy of Gods creation. We live in troubled and desperate times. At every turn their is mass amounts of injustice, greed, control, and oppression that exists. Nations are in uproar, people are being killed for no reason, dictators and extreme ideologies are taking over. There is no peace. There is no righteousness. God is looking down from on high and I believe He weeps over His creation. He knows that because of the power of the evil one to distort, twist, lie, kill, steal, and destroy-His sheep are harassed and helpless. Truly they are a sheep without a shepherd. I think of the words in Isaiah 55 that say "Come everyone who thirsts..."

To be continued