Exodus 14:13-14 But Moses told the people, “Don’t be afraid. Just stand still and watch the Lord rescue you today. The Egyptians you see today will never be seen again. The Lord himself will fight for you. Just stay calm.NLT
The actual verse of the day was just verse 14, but I read some of the verse context, and realized I should have used verse 13 for this as well. I underlined the original verse for today to clear any confusion.
As you probably guessed, the context of this verse is when Moses freed the Israelites from the Egyptians, right before they crossed the Red Sea. When I read the context of the verse, I thought I shouldn't have used this verse, it written in a completely different circumstance. I didn't think it applied to me any, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I was wrong.
The Israelites were about to face something new, something scary. They was about to leave everything they ever knew for God. They were scared they wasn't gonna make it alive. They seriously were lacking trust in God. I'm not any different from them, although my setting is different, my circumstance is just the same. Here I am trying to escape sin, I feel like there's no way I will make it to my wedding day "alive". I feel like this sin will conquer and destroy me, the same as the Israelites thought the Egyptians was going to conquer and destroy them. Guess what, they were not conquered. They escaped, because God was fighting for them, just as He is fighting for me.
As long as we are doing the will of God, he's going to fight for us. We just need to stay calm and trust Him while He's fighting. He knows what He's doing. God always wins.
I WILL NOT LET SIN CONQUER ME. I WILL LET GOD DO HIS WORK, AND CONQUER SIN FOR ME...
I am sorry for yesterday's negative post. I was just feeling so discouraged, I felt like nothing is working. I really don't understand how I can try so hard and still end up failing. I know I need to give this to God, but I already have. I thought I gave it all to Him. I don't know, maybe I'm just not trying hard enough. Either way I'm going to try and not make any more negative blogs. Being negative only brings me down, so I need to start being positive to encourage myself throughout this entire thing.
Here lately on my days off, it has worked out some way or another where Kevin had it off as well, or at least half of it. So last night, after we had messed up, I asked God to make it where Kevin had to work most of the day so we wouldn't have a chance to mess up. I'm pretty sure God had a good laugh with that prayer. I didn't get to see Kevin at all today, he worked 15 hours. He didn't text me at all until he got home, and went to bed an hour later. There was no way we could have messed up today. God is awesome. It stinks that I didn't get to see him, but with our track record, we would have messed up today. Maybe I'm reading completely into this, but I think God knew we would have messed up, so He didn't give us the opportunity to mess up. That shows me right there that God really is fighting for me... Day Fifteen Completed!
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