God is Always Looking Out for His People—R Fritz
God loves every one of us. Those that love him back and obey him are his people. God wants everybody to follow him to find out who he is. We make decisions to go our own way because either we do not trust or know Jesus, or we want life on our terms. We are missing the truth about us and God’s family and his life and death. God wants us to choose him. It usually requires something to happen in our life for us to look at who God is and that we need him. That changes our life forever and sets most people down the road to find out who he is and love, the thing we all want. Love is what draws us to Jesus and the people who have surrendered to him, because we feel that love. Without love we are not going to change anybody.
It is our love of God through the Holy Spirit that moves us to do the things we will not do on our own. That relationship that keeps us from sliding back into our own life of sin we had before we knew Jesus. God is part of us, the part of us that we need to increase as we decrease our part of us that will hold us back from being who God meant us to be. Who God meant us to be is the person he wants us to be with God and our help. Isaiah 41:10-11 says “Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded (disgraced) they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.” God will strengthen us and those against us will pay a price. That is what God wants to show his followers and show our enemies their consequences. God means what he says. If we want God’s grace and mercy for us, we had better show that same grace and mercy to the people around us.
God has taken care of his people for thousands of years. The Egyptians would not let God’s people to leave Egypt. God told Moses to speak to the congregation of Israel to each household to take a lamb without blemish to kill it and put the blood and apply to the two side posts and the upper door posts of their houses, then eating the lamb with bitter herbs and unleavened bread. When the LORD passed through the land of Egypt that night, he would kill all the firstborns in Egypt except those that had blood on the doorposts. This is why we need to obey God or the Holy Spirit exactly as he says because it could end our life. Exodus 12:13-14 says “And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. And the day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.” A feast should be kept for a memorial forever because God took care of his people.
Fast forward to why Jesus came to set us free from the penalty for sin once and for all. It is the deliverance from sin and sins penalty. God sentence for sin is spiritual death and separation from God in a place of judgement called hell. The truth is for those that choose to run from God or do not want him in their life will get their wish for eternity by their self. This is where yes meaning yes, and no meaning no comes to haunt us. In other words, thinking that doing nothing and not acting on the truth that we have and to not decide for Jesus is a no and our choice. We must be delivered from sin to be saved.
The festival of Passover was celebrated by Jesus before his death in the upper room with his disciples. Jesus is the Passover lamb that was spoken about in the Old Testament. Jesus started his last supper with the twelve disciples in Luke 22:17-20 which says with Jesus speaking; And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, “Take this, and divide it among yourselves: For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.” And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it and gave unto them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you: this does in remembrance of me. Likewise, also the cup is the New Testament in my blood, which is shed for you.” This was the remembrance of Jesus as the Passover lamb as we signify body with unleavened bread and blood as grape juice or wine.
Passover is supposed to be celebrated every year as a remembrance of Jesus and what he did for us by taking our sin to the cross, a way for us to be able to come in God’s presence as Adam had and lost because of sin. The ten commandments were what Moses brought down from the mountain from God. Everything that happened between Moses and the coming of Jesus was for a way to get rid of sin. When Jesus gave his life, the Holy Spirit came for a way for us to overcome sin if we choose to let it. The Holy Spirit is our teacher with the opportunity because it lives in us, to change us from a sinner to become the person we are meant to be. God knows us and knows who we are meant to be before we are born. Jeremiah 5, 7-9 says “Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” But the LORD said unto me, “Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee,” saith the Lord. Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth. And the LORD said onto me, “Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.” This happened in the Old Testament where the LORD put his words in Jeremiah mouth. It still happens today because we have the Holy Spirit and are surrendered.
God knew each one of us before he formed us and knows who we are meant to be and knows who we will become. We need to let the Holy Spirit form us into who we are meant to be which means we need to surrender our life completely. We need to surrender whatever the Holy Spirit shows us because it is time for that issue to be gone. It has taken me over twenty years knowing God to get where I keep asking the Holy Spirit if there is something not right in me it must go now. God has a place we are meant to be, a place each of us were made for greatness. Let us all obtain God’s greatness in our life. God Bless.
