“For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. (Deuteronomy 7:6-8, ESV)
The people of Israel were God’s chosen people. After spending 500 years in slavery, God rescued them. He did it with “a mighty hand.” God sent plagues to convince the king of Egypt to free the slaves; water to blood, frogs, lice, flies, locust, sick cattle, boils, fiery hail and darkness and finally the first born sons of Egypt died. Pharaoh had enough, the slaves were free. God still rescues his people. Just like the people of Israel you and I aren’t anything special. We don’t deserve anything from God but punishment for our sin. Sin isn’t just making mistakes; it is living our lives apart from God’s will. We can’t help it we are slaves it. We cannot change. But God rescues us from slavery with a mighty hand. He sends Jesus, his first born son to die. His death on the cross releases us from sin’s slavery by taking our punishment. Now you are free from punishment. God doesn’t save us because we are something special; we are something special because God saves us.
Let us pray: Dearest Jesus, thank you for giving your life for me and setting me free from sin and its punishment. Amen.
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