Liberty
As a child with seven older siblings, we only had bare essentials in our tiny house. My cousins, though, had everything ... beds, rooms, TV, candy on-demand, and space. Something about their house gave me a longing. On more than one occasion, I begged to spend the night with them. Inevitably I couldn’t make it through the night. My uncle would have to take me home. “I can’t stay here,” I would cry, “I need people who belong to me.” So home I went to crawl into a bed full of sisters.
There’s nothing quite like having your own people. People who know and understand you, care about what concerns you, understand your idiosyncrasies. It’s much better than “stuff.”
But that’s nothing compared to having our own God. Belonging to Him is liberating. It sets us free and satisfies our longings.
Mary Graham
Taken from Women of Faith Devotional Bible
“God spoke further to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord; and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, Lord, I did not make Myself known to them. I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they sojourned. Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant. Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you for a possession; I am the Lord.’ ””
Exodus 6:2-8
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