God's purpose for His people is to get them to 'move'. He wants us to go out into the world and teach the people. But He is looking for a consistency in His people; those people who will be found doing His will, regardless of the circumstances they face.

God always has a plan for our lives, but we have to obey Him, and stay in His will. In the OT, He told Moses that He would lead the Israelites out of Egypt where they had been under bondage for so long. He promised Moses that He would bring those people out of bondage, and he would redeem them, for He was the Lord and He would remember the covenant He had made with them.

True to His Word, God worked through Moses and Aaron to cause Pharaoh to release the Israelites. The Lord led them with a pillar of a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. [Exodus 13:21]. He told Moses to stretch forth the rod and part the Red Seas, that the people of Israel could pass through unharmed, to get to the other side. Pharaoh made the Egyptians take the chariots and go after the Israelites; then the Lord again told Moses to stretch forth the rod and shut off the open spaces in the sea, trapping the Egyptians in the sea, causing them to die, unable to reach the 'dry land' and the people of Israel.

The people had come out into the wilderness and had started complaining, just as they did when they were in Egypt and under bondage to Pharaoh. Isn't that just like people? As soon as they get back into what they deem a 'normal setting', they quickly forget the troubles they've been through and who brought them out, and start belly-aching once again. They don't strive for excellence in the Lord; they never have enough. It's hard to get to the Promised Land when you never have enough - you can't be satisfied with patience to wait upon the Lord and his plan for your life.

To us as humans, we sometimes feel that to have stayed in the 'circumstances' would have been far less trouble than having to do what God now asks of us. We want that Promised Land, that land where 'milk and honey flows' [Exodus 3:8], but unwilling to obey His command for our lives, in order to cross over into that promised land....belly aching all the time because we never arrive.

God is always waiting on the 'other side' to see us come through. But what we forget is the fact that he's also right here with us, ready to go through the trials and troubles with us, to guide our ever step into the promised land. We have to put our faith and trust in Him. He will deliver us through the 'sea of trouble', to the other side - but to continue to the promised land, we must be willing to sacrifice and keep our eyes stayed upon him. The people of Israel began to get upset, afraid they would die, and thought it would have been better to go through the trials in Egypt than to try and make it through a place in the wilderness. They had lost their 'faith' in God's promises. They were 'looking back', and not 'looking forward', not keeping their eyes on the goal.....the Promised Land that God had provided for his people.

Have you been in the state of 'bondage' and perhaps God has delivered you, and has wanted to take you to the Promised Land, but you haven't arrived yet? Have you surveyed your 'circumstances' and have figured out why you are still perhaps in some of the same bondage that you were in back in 'Egypt'....not much better off than you were the day God delivered you?

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BUT you can overcome them. HE has already made a way out. You can't afford to look at the circumstances and get stagnated. You have to look at GOD; put your trust in Him, take Him at His Word, that what he's said is true and he will perform his Word.

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