Remember Your Deliverance

# 153 - Today's Du-votional comes from: 1Sa 12:6-8, “Then Samuel said to the people, "It is the LORD who raised up Moses and Aaron, and who brought your fathers up from the land of Egypt. 7 "Now therefore, stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD concerning all the righteous acts of the LORD which He did to you and your fathers: 8 "When Jacob had gone into Egypt, and your fathers cried out to the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place.” ( 1 Sam 12:6-8) Samuel's farewell address begins with the beginning. Your kingdom story, my kingdom story begins with our deliverance from sin. Egypt symbolizes the days in which you and I were slaves to sin as opposed to slaves to righteousness. We were spiritually dead, dead in our trespasses. Eph 2:1says, “And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,” (Stuck in Egypt) We read more of our personal deliverance in the Book of Romans: Ro 6:17,18,21,22 “But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. 18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore. Because of these things I encourage you and I to heed Samuel's advice and “stand still” before the Lord. Yes, I know you have a lot to do today. You have a lot on your mind, but take the time, today, right now, to take in the deliverance of God. In fact take the time to consider His deliverance every day, lest you take it for granted and find yourself forgetting that you are His, bought with a price! He loved you and I so much that He sent His only begotten Son to die on a cross to pay the wages of our sin and deliver us from its death grip. Stand still! Take it all in beloved. It will go a long way in guarding your heart from being enslaved to sin once more.