I Will Walk Among You
If you follow my statutes and keep my
commandments and observe them faithfully,
And I will walk among you, and will be
your God, and you shall be my people. I am the LORD your God who brought you
out of the land of Egypt, to be their slaves no more; I have broken the bars of
your yoke and made you walk erect.
But if you do not obey me, and do not
observe all these commandments, if you spurn my statutes, and abhor my
ordinances, so that you will not observe all my commandments, and you break my
covenant, I in turn will do this to you: I will bring terror on you;
consumption and fever that waste the eyes and cause life to pine away. You
shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
After 400 years of slavery and hard
labor, the people of Israel were burdened and discouraged. But under Moses, God
led them out of bondage and put them on the road to a new life of freedom
through obedience to Him. It is a vivid reminder of what God has done for us
through Jesus Christ. We do not need to be bowed down with our sin. As we
embrace the freedom of righteousness through faith in Jesus Christ, we can hold
our heads high and keep walking tall.
There are no
dead ends on the road of obedience to God.
Our Daily
Bread – May 16, 2006