"So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. And he said to them, "Go, serve the Lord your God. But which ones are to go?" Moses said, "We will go with our young and our old. We will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the Lord." But he said to them, "The Lord be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Look, you have some evil purpose in mind. No! Go, the men among you, and serve the Lord, for that is what you are asking..." (Ex 10:8-11).
When the Plagues became to much for Pharaoh to deal with he would reluctantly agree to let God's people go. But he would only agree to let them go under certain conditions. One such condition was that he would only allow the men to go and worship the Lord. The women and children were to stay behind and remain slaves in Egypt. In the same way the god of this world, if he fails to keep us blinded to the freedom we can find in Jesus and slaves to sin, he will switch to plan b. Plan b is keeping us from influencing others for Jesus including our families. And if we compromise in this way we will not only be disobeying God but we will not experience the fullness of God's mighty power and presence in our lives. Moses made it out of Egypt alive, but God sent him back to lead his people out of there too. And because he obeyed God without compromise he got to experience the hand of God at work in many miraculous ways. Do you desire to see God at work in your life? Get out of you comfort zone and ask God to use you to bring somebody into a saving relationship with Jesus.
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