Praise God! I reached 100% of my financial goal on Saturday!! Thank you all for being a part of making this happen, through your prayers and your gifts!! It was an incredible moment, seeing God's continual faithfulness and how he never leads anywhere without making provisions. Looking back, it seems so silly to have doubted that he would call me into ministry for the year but not provide for my needs. I'm currently reading Exodus, and some days, I feel like the Israelites after they left Egypt: They saw God perform sign after miraculous sign, plagues afflicting all of Egypt except his chosen people...and then they complain and doubt God's ability to save them from an army. To give them water. To feed them. To rule over them. And so they grumbled and complained, finally building themselves a new God when they were convinced that He had forgotten about them when Moses went up to see him.
Perhaps the reason that God instructed Israel on how to observe the Passover even before he poured out the last plague was because he knew that Israel would forget. He tells them, "This day shall be for you a memorial day, andyou shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast...And you shall observe the Feast of the Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt" (Exodus 12:14, 17). Later on, as his prelude to the Ten Commandments, God says, "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery" (Exodus 20:2). How do you forget something as big as liberation from slavery by miracles? If Israel needed to be reminded about that little detail, then I pray that I will remember and look back at these times as reminders of God's faithfulness.
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