Bought Out (Post 1)

Post one of a series in Deuteronomy.

God says to Moses who in turn speaks to the escaped slaves of Egypt in Deuteronomy 6:23
"I have bought you out so I can bring you in" Before we can look at this statement we need to go back and read  Deuteronomy 4:37-38 "And because He loved you.....He brought you out......with His Presence". We see here that God's people are not alone, they are brought out by God's Presence. We see that the overriding fact is that God guides us by His Presence and cares for us by His Providence so everything that I talk about later on is contained within those two great words, Presence and Providence.

What have we been bought out of and what have we been bought into?

God wants to bring us out of a place of  bondage, a place where our worth is measured by how many bricks we can make to a place where we are valued for who we are, with no expectations except that of pleasing our redeemer and king. To God we are measured for who we are and not by what we do for Him. 


The call of God on our lives is not about being put into a position that compels us to repay God for His gracious acts but one that brings us into a new found freedom with Him, that then enables us to claim and move into the freedom that God intended for us at the outset of creation.


If we look at Deuteronomy chapters 6 - 9 we will find some insight into being set free from sin and how God promises to equip us so that we can establish ourselves with Him through life's circumstances.

Moses speaks to the people in Deuteronomy 7:1 and reminds them of God's greatness and how it was He who went before them and who continues to go before them. God calls the people of Israel to go into the promised land, the land promised to their forefathers, and claim it as their own inheritance. Our position in God is that we need to claim what is rightfully ours, we need to stand on the promise of eternal life and work out our salvation step by step and day by day. We have to posses by faith the uninhabited places in our lives for God.

God says "I will go before you and drive out". Notice that when God called the people out of Egypt He was in front and notice He says He will go before and drive out. So claiming the uninhabited places in our lives is not about what we can do in our own strength it is all about what God does on our behalf.

Paul puts it this way  Colossians 1:27 "Christ in you the hope of Glory"

We need to learn about the greatness of God and what He does not about what we think we are capable of, that is to demean God.  We need to begin to see God as Isaiah did in Isaiah 6:1 high and lifted up with His train filling the temple"

Lord help us to see how great you are and not to focus on our own limitations. Lord lead us into your promised land and help us to overcome and overthrow those places in our lives that are not of you.