EXODUS 3:7-8

Then the LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

TO PONDER

'It's your move!' How many times have you heard that phrase in your life? Whether playing chess, monopoly, or some other board game, "it's your move' is a comment that is often said to try and keep the game flowing, moving along. It's your move. We would love to think that Newton's first law of physics that states an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force, would keep the momentum happening. But we know that in life there are forces and a lot of friction which act on our life to halt us in our tracks and stop us moving forward, I wonder what those forces are in your life at this present time? Grief? Illness? Covid? Fear? Circumstances? Depression? Family? Uncertainty?

That's what I love about this passage. Our God is a God who moves. A God who saw that his people were a people at rest, to use Newton's terms, not in the sense that they were at peace, but that they were motionless, stopped in their tracks, unable to move forward or backwards, stuck. God saw their affliction, he heard their cries, he knew their suffering and so he moves. He moves to deliver them, he moves to bring them to a better place and he moves to bring abundant blessing on their life. It's a movement that continues through the pages of Scripture. In Jesus, he moves to deliver those whose momentum in life has been halted, those suffering, those hurting, those scared, those grieving, those who have hit an obstacle/challenge/force in life that has stopped them in their tracks. In Jesus, he has moved in love to bring the world to a better place, he has moved to bring abundant blessing on and in our lives that gives us an eternal momentum in life. In Jesus, God removes the unbalanced and destructive forces (sin, death, devil) that destroy life, so we can keep moving in love, keep moving in grace, through whatever tries to stop us. We move because he first moved for us and in us so we can move to bring his blessing to others. God's made his move. It's now your turn.

PRAYER:

God, thankyou that you are a God who is always on the move for us. You move to us in suffering, in grief, in hardship, in whatever we face in life, to bring us to a better place that is filled with your blessing and grace. In response to your move, help us to move towards others with the same love, compassion and grace that gets their life moving again. Amen.

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