During the Exodus on many occasions, Gods people murmured, complained, committed idolatry, rebelled, and remained stiff necked. To the point, God desired to pour out His wrath and utterly destroy them. He told Moses to get out of the way, He was going to wipe out Israel and start over with Moses. God would create a new nation (Numbers 14:11, 12). Moses, who obviously had standing with God refused the offer and pleaded with the Lord time and again. In fact, Moses stood in the gap for his nation to the point he asked God to blot out his name from the book of life, if God would not spare Israel from His wrath (Exodus 32:31, 32). Only one other man in redemptive history dared to make this same request. That man was the Apostle Paul. He was so desperate for his kinsman according to the flesh to be saved, he stated, I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh (Romans 9:1-3). Most of us will not be driven to this extreme to save a nation, but if you are a child of God through the merits of Jesus Christ, you also have standing with God. Hebrews reveals, Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need (Hebrews 4:16). Our nation is in dire need of grace, mercy, and help. America is so defiled and under Gods just judgement, should we not like Moses wrestle with the Lord to plead with Him to turn from His fierce wrath, and relent from this harm to Your people? This is the call that captures the essence of American Chronicles 7:14. Each day my family and I have our alarm set for 7:14. We stop what we are doing to cry out to God like Moses of old and plead with Him to spare our nation and do not turn us over to what we richly deserve. We are asking Him to temper His judgments with mercy and remember we are but dust that need Him to live and not die in Jesus name! Exodus 32:11-14 declares, Then Moses pleaded with the Lord his God, and said: “Lord, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, ‘He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this harm to Your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’” So the Lord relented from the harm which He said He would do to His people.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:12:15 +0000
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