Exodus 6:7 "I will take you as My Own people, and I will be your God. (The Lord declares to His servant Moses that He has determined to take this people who are now enslaved under Egyptian rule and put them under His rule, under His guidance, under His freedom, under His protection, under His provision. These are the covenant promises to which He has chosen to bind Himself, that He has eagerly embraced to Himself because of His great love for us. He says the same to us today, that He has chosen to make us His Own, that He has determined to place us under His sovereign salvation from bondage and into His deliverance.) Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians." (The Lord intended that this people would come to know Him as their Deliverer and Savior, that they would learn of Him through their experiences of rescue, that they would know Him experientially, and that these events would cause them to honor and revere Him because of His great feats on their behalf. When and as the Lord delivers us from the places of enslavement in our lives, He is declaring over us that He is claiming us as His Own, that He is allowing us to learn to know Him experientially, to learn to honor and revere Him as Savior and Rescuer. Today, He has brought us out from under the yoke of the oppressive places in our lives. We can now look to Him and remember that He is the One Who has delivered us. His purposes in our lives are always that we come to know Him, to see Him as He really is, the One Who loves us passionately and personally and Who desires to set us free from any encumbrance that keeps us from the close relationship with Him for which He so yearns.)
