Moses brought amazing news of God's deliverance. After four hundred years they would finally be free! God was going to fulfill his promise to them that they had been told about for generations! Sadly, the Israelites had been so accustomed to slavery and being treated like scum that they could not imagine being set free. They were truly oppressed and they saw themselves as slaves, not free men.
This is what can happen when you are stuck for a long time. You get used to defeat and failure to the point that you cannot accept the possibility that you can be set free! When you get stuck in a sin that you cannot seem to shake you eventually give up and accept the sin and walk in the oppression and shame of failure.
The beauty of Christ is that he came to set you free from sin! Galatians 5:1 reads, 'For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.'
Now may you walk in freedom. May you look at the sin and struggle that has been owning you and trust what Christ did for you on the cross. May you accept the freedom you have been given. Amen.
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