The Promise Land

One thing I always find fascinating about the Bible, is you can read it 20 times and you will have new revelation EVERYTIME you read it. So I have to share mine for the day..

I never realized that the land Jacob had lived in with his sons.. WAS the SAME LAND.. as the Promise Land. It’s so obvious but I just never really picked up on the hints to it.

Joseph was taken out of the land to Egypt, where what looked like a terrible situation, turned into his family also being brought into Egypt. So, natural thought would be why would God take them out of their promise just to send them into slavery..

Have you ever felt like that? Have you ever lost what looked like a promise of God.. Have you went thru a season where if feels like you lost everything? Or maybe your in that season right now. You’re so confused on why God took what He took from you..

If God would have kept Jacob in the promised land and never placed a famine on the land.. it would have been fine.. Jacob and his family would have lived there, worked the land.. and had a simple life.. but God isn’t calling us to that.. God is calling us to something so much more amazing.

Exile to Egypt was a time for formation, for the people to learn their identity. It was a time for them to desperately lean on God and know that they couldn’t do it alone. It was a time for covenant with His people.

You may feel like you’ve been exiled to Egypt in your own life right now. Maybe your marriage feels like it’s in exile. Maybe you’ve lost friends or family. Maybe you feel like a slave to life. Lost your job, relationship with your kids is in turmoil.. there are so many things in our life that can feel like an Egypt. We just wanna go back to our promise.

God’s promise is never broken tho. They were ALWAYS going to end up back in the promised land. He told Jacob, to not be afraid to leave because they WOULD BE BACK.

The exciting and amazing fact that they didn’t just come back quietly and take on their old lives again as a family..

They came back as a NATION. They came back REDEEMED. They came back transformed. In relationship with God that was nothing compared to what it was prior. They came back to an abundance of blessings they didn’t even know was possible.

God’s promise is still very much on your life. God may have taken you out of your promised land… and you may be in Egypt right now… but when He brings you back.. He isn’t just going to give you your old life back he is going to give it to you magnified beyond belief. We just have to lean into our relationship with Him. Trust him. Use this time to learn the things He is wanting us to learn. Become transformed thru the slavery of Egypt. So you can also walk back into your calling, LOUD.. TRANSFORMED.. AND REDEEMED.