Day 11 of 90 - Numbers 12:1 - Numbers 23:30

Today was read Numbers 12 - Numbers 23, and there were SO many amazing nuggets! But my verse is Numbers 14:2.

By this point, the Israelites have been complaining so much, I’ve lost count. every time God delivered them, they found another reason to complain. What’s worse, they preferred their bondage over their freedom. They preferred to go back to enslavement, instead of embracing their emancipation. Which tells me that it is possible remove people out of Egypt, but that doesn’t mean Egypt is out of them. 

My grandparents started their church 30 years ago, and they were committed to radical evangelism. Every Saturday, they canvassed the streets of Newark, NJ to spread the good news of Jesus. One Saturday, they met a woman named Denise begging for food outside of a local McDonald’s. When they approached her, she was searching for food out of garbage can. My grandparents not only bought her food that day, they also introduced her to Christ, helped her to find a job, taught her the Word, and eventually moved her into their home. Denise was our family member for over 10 years. Every holiday, she sat at the table with us. She had a job and she learned how to budget. But some days, Denise would disappear. And whenever we went looking for her, Denise was right back at McDonald’s, searching for food in the garbage can. 

Like Denise, all of us have some “Egypt” that we don’t want to let go of. All of us have a familiar thing that imprisons us but intoxicates us at the same time. It’s called a weakness. We all have them. But this text showed me two major things. 

1) if your weakness wins, your promise becomes paralyzed. You can’t enjoy the new until you let go of the old.

2) complainers are contagious. And if you’re not careful, you’ll compromise your future because of your proximity to their problem.

Lesson: it is possible to remove people out of Egypt but that doesn’t mean Egypt is out of them.


Prayer: Lord, get Egypt out of me. ONCE AND FOR ALL. Amen.