Learning from the Teacher

While I was laying in bed last night, I was thinking/pondering/praying about matters of God and got hit with a sudden, clear new revelation of God. I was pretty blown away by it and I thought that you might find it helpful, too. So here it is.

Jesus is our Savior. Our rescuer. He redeems us. He restores us. But we have to let him do that and follow him once he has made a path for us to be rescued, redeemed, or restored. In Exodus, God delivered Israel out of the hands of the Egyptians, but the Israelites had to still choose to leave Egypt. When the Red Sea parted, they had to choose to walk through it.

So it is with us.

When God answers our prayers for deliverance and to be rescued, and he opens a door for us, we still have to choose to walk through that door and out of the stuff we’re in, be it sin, oppression, danger.

In John 8 when Jesus saves the adulteress from being stoned, his last words to her are “Go now and leave your life of sin.” He had already delivered her and it was now up to her to accept that.

This may not be big news for you, but it really struck me. So when God answers our prayers and gives us a way out, let’s have the courage and the faith to walk through that door. Amen.