The Lord Be With You Today!
Exodus 4:7
"Now put it back into your cloak," He said.
So Moses put his hand back into his cloak,
(Moses' leprous, diseased hand was a message
from the Lord to him and to Israel
that he in himself was a weak and ineffective deliverer,
that he was fundamentally incapable of accomplishing
the great mission to which the Lord had called him.
The Lord is also giving Israel a sign that,
unless they obey the Lord's call to leave Egypt and to be free,
their continued sojourn in Egypt
will result in their complete destruction.
The same messages are ours today.
The Lord is showing us that in and of ourselves,
consumed by our sin nature, we are ineffective and weak.
He is also saying that when we remain
in places of disobedience and sin, of rebellion and slavery,
we are headed for certain destruction,
the fate of continuing to lean on and follow our own path.
Moses' diseased hand is also yet another mark of sin and bondage
to which we are vulnerable in this fallen world.)
and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh.
(In a dramatic demonstration of the Lord's power,
He heals Moses' leprous hand as a vivid illustration
of His mercy and deliverance and healing.
He doesn't leave us in bondage or oppression,
but is present to deliver us from our Egypts and to heal our diseases today.
Today, the Lord calls us to give Him our inadequacies, our uncleanness,
our sin nature, our bondage, our captivity, our sickness and disease,
and to allow Him to pour into us His healing virtue.
Moses' healed hand is the Lord's promise to us
of both His divine healing and His rescue.
As our Healer Lord, He has marked us with His deliverance and healing,
leading us into His presence as a healed son and daughter of the Lord.)
May the Lord richly bless you this day!
In Christ's love,
Blessings!
Sally
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