ROOTED RENEGADE

All too often we feel as though our Father does not hear our cries for help. We feel as though our pleads for rescue go unnoticed. We sit and wallow in our circumstances, and while they may range in severity, we miss a very important fact about our Father because we fail to do something in our waiting. Open the Bible and read His promises.

In my study this morning I was so inspired by a couple of verses that had I read them during my times of suffering I would have been more aware that God was really listening to me when I would cry myself to sleep at night begging for rescue. Or the days I would beg Him to save me from the hell I was living in, and the rescue did not come fast enough for my standards or liking. What I failed to realize at the time was God’s timing is not mine.

Exodus 2:23-25 “During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. God hears their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.”

Talk about an eye opener! Concerned about them? About me and my slavery? While yes I know my God is most concerned about me now, I did not understand that when I was in the midst of my own slavery.

I used to think that God was not listening to my pleas for mercy as I would wake up every day and nothing was changing, much like the Isrealites felt. Countless hours spent begging for rescue and alas! The Father heard, He answered, He alone delivered! See we expect God to send thunder and lightning and some miraculous sign to show us His mighty hand so many of us can boast and brag to those who have oppressed us, “look what God has done!”. But that is not how the sovereign Father operates! He rescues, He provides, He sends people to aide the oppressed, and sometimes it is not in a chariot with an entarage full of paparazzi for the whole world to see.

Sometimes it looks like cop cars, hand cuffs, jail cells, and barbed wire. Sometimes it looks like family intervention and rehab stays. Then others it looks like going down at altar call and giving up your life to Him because He heard your pleas and He showed you the way to Him.

Every rescue looks different. Every cry for help does too. One thing that never changes, God hears every cry, every plea, and He answers them all…we just have to be ready for how that answer comes, because it never comes how we think it should. We have to stop playing God and get out of His way so He can do His job. After all, He is soveriegn, we are not.

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