Continuing in Exodus

I continued reading in Exodus today and found a couple of things that really stood out to me today.

First, in Exodus 6, God tells Moses to go to the Isrealite slaves in Egypt and tell them that God has promised to free them from bondage. He wants the Israelites to know that he will claim them as his own and bring them to the Promised Land as he had promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Then look what happens....

Exodus 6:9 (NLT)
So Moses told the people of Israel what the Lord had said, but they refused to listen anymore. They had become too discouraged by the brutality of their slavery.

Everywhere we look, there are people that will not accept the promises of God because they have become "too discouraged by the brutality of their slavery (sin)." My past isn't a picture of perfection. It is filled with a lot of bad choices and selfishness. It is possible that you may be ashamed of your past as well....maybe your present. Satan wants us to believe that we have blown it...he wants to discourage us, through our sin yesterday and today, to the point where we don't believe we are worthy to be freed. Just like the Israelites!

God knows what we have done. God knows where we have been. God knows what we have thought. And he loves us anyway! God says in Him we are new creatures, the old is past away. It is hard to understand that God will take you right where you are....but He will! If we could become "clean" or "perfect" before we came to Him...why Jesus? Jesus was sent to cover all that junk in our lives....we can't do it on our own.....God knows that! Let God have your past sins and mistakes....please don't let the discouragement of your sin keep you from accepting the freedom that God is offering.