Finding Favor
When God's presence is with a person or a group of people, others recognize it, and they respect them for it, even if they believe differently. Now, I know this is a general observation and not without exceptions. Even the most sinful people will show respect for a truly righteous man or woman. They will be highly esteemed like Moses and the people of God in Egypt. (Exodus 11:3) We need to have more sincerely righteous people today, who obviously have God's presence or favor on their lives, so those who don't know the Lord will recognize them and know they need the Lord, too.
It seems like the Egyptians and the servants of Pharaoh would hate the Hebrews and Moses for all of the destruction that had come into their lives. The opposite was the case. The average person and even those who served Pharaoh could see God working in them, and it caused them to treat them with favor, even giving them very nice gifts and a lot of money before the Lord led them out of Egypt. This showed that God's plan to show that He was the Lord through the plagues had worked. The people saw that so they respected God's people and their leader.
Today, I am afraid we have too many weak examples of believers, who are not living a holy life, and others can't see the favor of God on them. We even have way too many examples of people who say they know the Lord, who do terrible things. Then, when they are found out, the esteem of people for Christians gets very low. Please, pray for yourself, your family, your church, and believers in general that we will be the kind of people that unbelievers will respect and upon who they will bestow their favor.
Tomorrow, I intend to read Exodus 12-15.
It seems like the Egyptians and the servants of Pharaoh would hate the Hebrews and Moses for all of the destruction that had come into their lives. The opposite was the case. The average person and even those who served Pharaoh could see God working in them, and it caused them to treat them with favor, even giving them very nice gifts and a lot of money before the Lord led them out of Egypt. This showed that God's plan to show that He was the Lord through the plagues had worked. The people saw that so they respected God's people and their leader.
Today, I am afraid we have too many weak examples of believers, who are not living a holy life, and others can't see the favor of God on them. We even have way too many examples of people who say they know the Lord, who do terrible things. Then, when they are found out, the esteem of people for Christians gets very low. Please, pray for yourself, your family, your church, and believers in general that we will be the kind of people that unbelievers will respect and upon who they will bestow their favor.
Tomorrow, I intend to read Exodus 12-15.