Done Deal...

Life has many challenges. There are ‘ups’ and ‘downs’, only to be followed by ‘twists’ and ‘turns’. Sometimes they come so fast and furious that it challenges our faith. We find ourselves doubting if God is really working out a good future for us at all…
“When God brings you into the land of the Canaanite, a land lavish with milk and honey, you are to observe this service during this month.” ~Exodus 13:4-5
The Hebrews marched out of Egypt. Actually they were urged out. It was night as their captors told them to grab their things and be gone. I’m sure it a bit more disturbing than we’ve romanticized the story to be. After all, they were leaving a civilized place and heading out into a wilderness. I am sure their minds were filled with questions. What happens now? How will we eat after our meager supply of unraised bread is gone? What will we drink? How will we keep our wives and children safe against the wild animals and marauders? This was an adventure of faith, in which they had to lay themselves completely into the care of God. I find it so interesting that they hadn’t even got out of Egypt when God starting talking about the land of milk and honey. Here they were struggling to get their stuff together and march into the night and God is gazing at their future, their land of blessing, talking about it like it was a done deal. That’s God! If we pause for a moment we’ll hear the same thing, God gazing at our future and talking about ‘when we get there’ as if it’s a DONE DEAL! ~verlon