Letting go of Egypt
Posted by cccastellon on January 3, 2008
The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”
I was listening to Ed Lapiz on the radio one night when I thought I heard him say, “Let go of your Egypt”. The phrase stuck to my mind. He was talking about the Exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land. When the Israelites came to the Desert of Sin (between Elim and Sinai) on the fifteenth day of the second month, after their final escape from the Pharaoh’s forces. They were grumbling because they had no food. They recalled their days under the Pharaoh’s rule. They were oppressed yet comfortable, to a certain extent.
The Lord may may have great plans for us but sometimes the only way to reach them is to get out of our comfort zones. Moving on to a better position, a better job or to better circumstances, means taking a leap of faith. It doesn’t mean being irresponsible and just leaving your current obligations. It means planning, as much as you can, for that next big step. Anticipating all possible scenarios and preparing for them gives us comfort but then, we get a feeling that somehow, certain factors can still conspire to foul things up just as we are making our big move. Now THIS is what makes us uncomfortable. And this is were we need to make that leap of faith. It will never make sense now but in hindsight (it’s always in hindsight, isn’t it?), you will understand why you were made to undergo such an experience in getting to your goal.
“…For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
We should seek the best from God, but we have to leave Egypt to get to the Promised Land.
What’s your personal Egypt?
