Monday, January 10, 2022

Exodus 2 Devotions by Stephen Taylor

Exodus 2:22

Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”

The words “ I have become” stuck out to me this morning and how, as disciples of Christ, we should be echoing Moses’s statement. He had become a foreigner in a foreign land, but have we? What I see Moses saying here is, “I no longer belong. My home is far away. But I’m okay with that.”

Our inheritance isn’t in this life but in Christ and the life to come. We as a Body should be living this statement out day by day. How beautiful it is to know there is more than this life, and how extremely sad it would be to think that this life is it. We have been promised more, not because of who we are but Whose we are, Jesus Christ’s!

Too often, I think we as a Body get comfortable here, and we are no longer foreigners in a foreign land but try to be two-way citizens of both the Kingdom and the world. We are called to live and serve in the world, not be like it and belong to it. We have to draw the line in the sand, and the line isn’t drawn by our wisdom or knowledge but by the eternal, infallible, perfect Word of God. He made it simpler for us by giving us the exact outline to follow! Thank You, Lord!

Moses realized he had become a foreigner in a foreign land; do we? Holy Spirit, teach us how to sow Your seed in the field but not put our roots down in it! Thank You, Lord, for Your Word, Your Spirit, Your Son, and Yourself! You are our all in all and the Great I Am!

Philippians 3:20,21- But our citizenship is in Heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables Him to bring everything under His control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

God bless! I love you all, but His love bought our citizenship! Glory, honor, and praise now and forever to Papa God, Jesus Christ our King, and the Holy Spirit!

 

 

 

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