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ACKNOWLEDGING THE BLESSING OF GOD
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20
Deuteronomy 26:11

Jeremiah 32:26-28

 

“Behold, I am the LORD,
the God of all flesh:

is there any thing too hard for me?”

 

ACKNOWLEDGING THE BLESSING OF GOD
 
When the first fruits were brought to the priest, he would then take those fruits and put them before the altar of the Lord. The acknowledgement was a thanksgiving to the Lord for He had been faithful to His promise.
 
Looking back, in Egypt, the Lord was in the process of making Israel a great nation. Jacob went to Egypt as one household. The Lord had brought Joseph to that land earlier. Despite the sad circumstances that brought him there, Jacob went there by a royal invitation. He and his family were given the best land in Egypt to dwell in. There were seventy-five souls that went into Egypt and, after 430 years, they were an uncountable multitude. According to Balak in Numbers 22:5, “they cover the face of the earth.” Numbers of different groups are given in this book and a conservative estimate puts the total population of Israel when they left Egypt at two million. The Egyptians felt threatened by their large number, so they oppressed the children of God and did all manner of evil to them, including the murder of their male infants. The children of God cried to the Lord, and God heard their cry.
 
In Exodus 2:24, it was added that God remembered His covenant to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In Exodus 3:9, the Lord told Moses that the cry of the children of Israel was come to Him and He had seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppressed them. He then commissioned Moses to go to Pharaoh to ask for the release of Israel, that they might leave Egypt. As expected, the Egyptian king did not allow them to leave. Nevertheless, the Lord brought them out, and the process was a great show of His might. He visited the land with ten plagues. They were the most unbearable plagues as they were wrought by the supernatural power of God. Moses spoke of these well-known historic events to instruct Israel to acknowledge the Lord as they settled in the new land.
 
THOUGHT: The marvels of God’s power never end.

PRAYER: Father, may I never stop trusting in Thee.

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