Month: December 2023

 

Exodus
“A call to leave”

We are all born in a place we are called to leave, to leave and never look back. Somewhere in our mind is the memory of when we were in our mother’s womb, but God in his sovereignty won’t let us remember it. When we breathe our first breath of air we start remembering things behind us. There are some things that are good and some things not so good. We have to physically be in a place to have a remembrance of it. In this world there are many things to experience and explore, some good and some bad. Some worth touching and some not. Some bring great reward and some that tear down.

My wife and I went to a funeral last night. The girl that died was 29 years old. She was born into a family with addictive parents, she became addicted also. At first the drugs were fun but soon became damaging to her heart, physically. The God of heaven, our creator always gives us a chance to leave. Jesus came, walked this ground and calls, follow me. The following Him part is what gets us out.

When Moses and all Israel left Egypt, it was because God called and said, leave. They left and Moses made this statement “If I had looked back I would have had cause to return”. He never looked back, some did and died before they saw the promised Life.(Land).

We are born in a corrupt and fallen world. It takes effort to come out of some places and things. Jesus led Moses out and will lead all of us out also. There is great promise in your future.

I look around and see so many young people in rags staring at a $600.00 dollar cell phone, caught in a world of ignorance and will never be successful at work, play or life unless they come out. Some don’t even know that they’re caught. There are plenty of voices out there saying, stay where you are I’ll take care of you.

In the natural world, education and good work ethics cause us to come out to a cleaner better life. In the supernatural world, seeking and doing the plans of God causes us to be successful in every phase of life. A man could even be dirt poor and still be happy in God’s plan. Poverty is simply a state of mind.

There are whole races of people who need, as us southerners would say, Exer – Dust or shake the dust off your feet and light a shuck out of there. There are leaders, self proclaimed ministers, that demand that the government feed and clothe their entire communities. That is called an Egypt mentality. Egypt was a horrible place and what they are suggesting is also. Slavery is what Egypt gave and that’s what paying for everyone’s needs gets you. Moses said “let my people go”, not keep them enslaved. Godless ministers say, demand what you want. Demanding to be given everything, gets you slavery. Who you owe to, is who owns you. Godly men say leave and follow Jesus out. He will reward you in school, work and every aspect of life.
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The Egypt life is hard forced labor with little pay, always hoping for something else and never getting it. Trapped in emptiness and loneliness. Knowing that something is dominating and holding you down, with no hope in the future. The scripture says, “ “Hope deferred makes the heart sick”. A sick heart leads to drugs, alcohol, murder, abnormal sex and a party spirit with false fun. It wears you out and leaves you broken. Joy and success is not in Egypt.

Those who love God and live in Godly families have already come out. But most people were not raised in that setting and have to break out, leave and never look back. It’s kind of scary, this breaking out. It’s just that this breaking out is not pleasant, but afterwards it’s wonderful. Sort of like a bad tooth, it hurts and the thought of someone twisting it out is tough, but after it’s gone it’s great.

The use of the word slavery is somewhat perverted. It should be ownership. Pharaoh owned Israel, in his own eyes, he was never going to let them leave. God had to force Pharaoh to let them go. God is still forceful for those who want to leave ownership, whether it is government handouts, food, drugs, alcohol, abusive family, laziness or ignorance. Say this, I will not live in Egypt all my life! God has made a nest for you, but you have to get up, tell Him so and follow Him out. It’s sort of like night time, when the sun comes up it’s all bright and new and holds your future hopes and dreams.

Moses and Israel’s new life, free from slavery was in Canaan, not Egypt. In order to find it they had to leave. For all those in emptiness and sorrow, you have to leave the state of mind you are in and than leave to find your promised new life.

There is a song we sing, it says “God will make a way when there seems to be no way”. If you are breathing, this promise is for you. There is another old song that says. “I don’t care where you’ve been sleeping I don’t care who’s made your bed I already gave my life to set you free”. What you’ve done and what you are doing is your slavery, the master that owns you. Israel was doing the same things when God said leave. He fixes and forgives all of that when we stand up and start leaving. What is out in front is your future home , life, wife, husband, children, job that you love, happiness and safety and no Pharaoh, no slavery, no addictions.

I can’t begin to tell you all the names of the people I know that have left, including myself and found that promised life.

“Peace And The Robber”

When I was young boy, in our back yard there was a blue martin house. We loved to watch them sail around catching bugs. They were at perfect peace doing exactly as God designed them. Now their catching thousands of mosquitoes a day meant that that we could play outside peacefully and have fun. Everything was great until the cow birds, as we called them, discovered the martin house. They are actually starlings. Well they are of a strange breed, they rob the martin eggs, move in and lay their own. The martins try to fight the cow birds as more and more of them come. Soon the beautiful blue martins leave and you guested it, the mosquitoes return. Our back yard was no longer a fun, peaceful place to play. We knew the cow bird as a nest robber.
Well, Jesus, had a lot to say about peace and its’ condition. John. 14:27 says, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
I was once reminded of something very important that is good to remember. In the American language and others as well, we might use a phrase to describe a red cherry as “red cherry”, with the adjective “red” first and the noun “cherry” second, but in Hebrew it would be called a “cherry red”. The noun being first and the adjective second. What the object is, comes first and its’ description is second.
Let’s see if we can relate to something that I had begun to do. I had started to look at people’s actions first rather than what they are. God said that man was created in his own image, and that being a noun. Mans’ actions then being an adjective. God looks at His created person as perfect first, him being a noun, He looks at the learning, imperfect person, secondly as the adjective, his condition second. Sometimes we can see a persons’ adjective, all his faults, and overlook his noun. Every person is first Gods’ created noun, and secondly his adjective condition. We are saved from our adjective condition to realize our noun, who we are. The more I looked at peoples’ condition, the more critical I would get. The scripture says correctly, “The anger of man does not work the salvation of God”. I, in a way, had become like the cow bird to those I loved and was trying to help. I was unknowingly robbing God’s noun of his peace.
God chooses the adjective, just as he is and makes him to realize his noun.

My wife and I were working on our gutter system that dumps the runoff water from our house roof into the creek and I just happened to step on a ground bee nest. Well, you know I didn’t realize that I had done anything wrong until they attacked my ankle. Needless to say, in a flash I started slapping my ankles, too late, two got me and two more were waiting in backup. They were locked and loaded, but I was quicker than them, and my next slap got them. Of course, I knew that I was outnumbered, so I retreated, and everything calmed down. Now these ground bees, commonly known as yellow-jackets, believed deeply that they owned the rights to my back yard and would defend it with all their might. Just who was right here, me or the bees?

Just what are rights and who made them and who gets to decide? Well, the God of nature and natures’ God are one and the same. God, our creator, made heaven and the earth and holds the only right to say what is right or wrong. He alone set the boundaries that holds everything where it belongs. Now natural man, from birth, will learn this if he lives long enough. There are absolutes here where we live, such as gravity. We can try to believe that we can defy it if we like, so, go and step off the back porch where there are no steps and tell me how that worked out. The design and protocols that God made are perfect if obeyed, if not, we can do great damage to ourselves and others.

Now, a friend made the statement once that a deluded person is one that knows he is wrong and doubles his efforts. If we know we are wrong long enough, we begin to think we are right. Well, everyone has a stop sign inside called a conscience. If violated enough, it becomes seared, or rather, deluded.

I have noted two men in high places of government that made statements from a mind that is deluded in the last little while. One was a nations leader. His statement in front of a very large place filled with people was, “Greater love has no man than one who lays down his life for his friends”. He believes he is right to kill Jews and Christians in Ukraine. The other person was our President in the US. He was speaking on television in front of the American people and made this statement. “To children who are transgender, I’ve got your back”. They both were wrong and believed they were right. Both men violated Gods’ absolutes and did great damage to other people, their rights, and their very lives and are still doing it. In the case of the ground bees, they can’t think and decide where to make their nest, so I don’t blame them. They’re just living their lives as God designed it. I just need to be more alert. In the case of men, God laid out His perfect design and we just need to learn it and walk safely in it.

The worst-case scenario is to have men in high places ruling out of a mind that thinks he’s right when he is wrong. So, we put men in office in America. It’s our God given right, not man given. If we observe a candidate and his actions don’t line up with his words, we can conclude that he is deluded. Our constitution was written to keep deluded men in high places from changing or taking our rights away from us. Deluded men can become like the bees, they get very angry when we get near their true nest. They swarm and try to sting us into believing their way. Men are serious in their delusion and have become a danger to us, our society, and the world. So, in the case of the bees, they just follow God’s perfect design and get angry if stepped on. But in the case of men, their angry, deluded strategies will fail, and will in the future. God made this statement, “My ways are not your ways, and your ways are not my ways”. If we all walk in His ways, and His perfectly designed precepts, delusion will flee and truth will remain.

David McClary