Day 19

Nov 19: Exodus 21-23
I've written a decent amount already about letting God take control of your life. About being faithful and learning how to really follow. In this reading, God further reinforces just how much he is the leader and not us. God sends down an angel to lead the Israelites and within a matter of about 10 verses, God says all of this:

"I will take away sickness from among you"
"I will give you a full life span"
"I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter"
"I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run"
"I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines"

I think it's pretty clear that God is letting the Israelites know that it's ALL him. All they need to do is listen and follow. It's comforting to know that God has our back like this. God may not lay it out like this for us as he did for the Israelites but he still communicates with us. A while back, Pastor Meyer gave a sermon about how we can know if God is speaking to us or if what we're hearing is just our own mind playing tricks on us. His answer was that the more time we spend with God, the easier it is to discern these things. We learn to slowly understand his will more and more and can understand when it is God speaking to us, and understand when we might be telling ourselves what we want to hear. What I need to do then is become closer with God, so that I'll be able to hear his voice and really learn how to follow.