Fitly Spoken

A day of work but with a desire for God. Distracted, yes, up and down, for sure, but the word had come and ministered to me in the morning and at midday. While thinking of something from Exodus this morning I had a notion to write of that amazing departure from Egypt. Those who know the scripture and have been around good teaching are aware of all the types that are here - from Egypt being a picture of the world to God delivering in a supernatural way. What I noticed most today was the people. They were oppressed but then it got worse, hope deferred made the heart sick as the initial optimism turned instead to worse treatment. The people started turning on Moses and Moses even started to waver. Yet God was there to reassure Him. Then upon deliverance it happened over and over, challenge, complaining, more supernatural intervention and repeat... People... I experienced a salvation that was every bit as supernatural, undeserved and far more eternal in its value and yet like them... we struggle with the next challenge - a sea in front and an army behind, a lack of water, a lack of food, bored of the food, putting stock in what we can see handle... name the wilderness murmuring and we can correlate, or if you cant, I can... Deliverance from Egypt and the security of being in Christ - whose love no man can separate us from is and should be more than enough, but we lose focus and no longer are we Looking Unto Jesus but rather feeling the pain, seeing the loss, enduring the... whatever... of life. Make no mistake, it is real, so incredibly and powerfully real but the strength to endure and get through is to Look Up. I was going to spend some time there until tonight happened. I was approached by a friend, a friend that had no need to approach me but was led to share a testimony of God doing that same miraculous work of redemption on a soul that most felt after decades of witness may never... o me of little faith... that's it, again circumstances quell our faith, our confident expectation of a God that gives the song to the birds and owns the cattle on a thousand hills. Then God just does what God does and reminds us that no matter how long, no matter how many rejections, no matter the depravity, no matter our lack of faith, The Lord's arm is not shortened that He cannot save... and He does the work, brings the conviction, gives wisdom and words to the witness and softens what had been an adamant stone (hard as a diamond) and once invited, redeems that soul from the power of satan and the fires of hell by the blood of Christ. Amazing. A word fitly spoken, a testimony of God's grace at work was as an apple of gold in pitchers of silver to me. Thank you Lord. Help me to expectantly pray for souls and speak grace mingled truth into the lives of those I pass by. Look unto JESUS, the AUTHOR and FINISHER of our FAITH - Heb 11:2