Where Are They Now? a Sequel: What Lies Behind?
the heart of Biblical Greats
October 7th, 2021
Romans 8:3-4, ‘God went for the jugular when He sent His own Son. He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In His Son, Jesus, He personally took on the human condition, entered into the disorderly mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that. The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. And now what the law code asked for but we couldn’t deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.’ (the MESSAGE)
What Lies Behind
Exodus 14:29-31, ‘But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right side and on their left. That day the Lord saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore. And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and put their trust in Him and in Moses, His servant.’ (NIV)
He had seen more amazing miracles in his lifetime than he could account for. There had been times during Moses’ life that he had to just hang on as miracle after miracle pummeled him, bowled him over with wonderment. In fact, he was a miracle before he even crawled or walked. He had talked to burning bushes and used a serpent for a walking stick and survived plagues and wrote God’s Word on tablets of stone. But nothing even came close to the highway God paved through a wet sea, even in the midst of grumbling and unhappy people. To this day, Moses was still in amazement, how he even had the emphatic words that had come from him when he didn’t trust his own voice. He had answered the people at the heart of their discontent. “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverances the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.” (Exodus 14:13-14) And the Lord God had honored His very word just like He said He would.
The waters had parted, standing at attention, like a thoroughfare, like walls of water, a curtain shimmering, a welcome mat for an unbelieving people laid out for them to just walk inside. And even more uncanny than that is when the parted waters flowed back into place, filling up the void for which they had been made. A holy God speaking a righteous word of authority and power.
A shiver spread through Moses as he peered down at his sandaled feet. He knelt to remove them as he recognized again the holy ground he stood on, where he had met God in such an intimate, personal way. He had been on a sojourn for his entire lifetime, a journey He had made with a personal Friend, a holy God. Would what lie behind him be greater than what lie ahead?
John 3:16-17, ‘”For here is the way God loved the world—He gave His only, unique Son as a gift. So now everyone who believes in Him will never perish but experience everlasting life. God did not send His Son into the world to judge and condemn the world, but to be its Savior and rescue it!”’ (TPT)
