Visiting history books of man’s inhuman treatments on fellow man will make one conclude that there is no God of love who Fathers human beings. Till date, ugly stories of how human beings have subjected others to slavery are on the increase. Williams Wilberforce is credited for putting an end to slave trades. This is what the history books of the olden days said. Today, we are still faced with slavery of unlucky people by those who think themselves too human and could make money by trafficking the less privileged people as slaves. There are evidences of slave-like sufferings being mated on people even in this 21st Century that supposed to be christened modern world slavery. Some people are getting too curious searching for the God who usually hears the voices of the oppressed.
Today’s devotional is looking into the answer for the curious people who have concluded that the God Christians serve might not be a God of justices. In the minds of these individuals, the more justices are being expected to gain strength over injustices, the more injustices seem to be triumphing. Funny enough, the section of the people of the world called “Children of God” are not spared from these sufferings in the hands of their fellow human beings. The lead passage of the devotional today bears God’s statement of achievement for the Israelites; The Bible says here: “I am the LORD your God who brought you out of land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; I have broken the bands of your yoke and made you walk upright” (Leviticus 26: 13 NKJV).
This statement is referring to the Israelites who were enslaved by the Egyptians for 400 years. The Israelites were not in Egypt as “Prisoners of War” (POW). They found their ways to Egypt because one of them (Joseph); made the Egyptians great by educating them on food storage that resulted Egypt become a major exporter of food to the people of the Mediterranean world then. Event within spaces of time turned the Israelites to slaves in the hands of the Egyptians. God however heard the cries of the Israelites and freed them from the slavery. He broke the yokes of slavery from the shoulders of the Israelites and made them walked free out of the land of Egypt. Some people somewhere might be saying: “can this happen to us?” The answer is yes!!
PRAYER:
FATHER LORD, where are your hands of righteousness which always deliver your children of old? We need your saving hands in our world today to free us from slavery in the hands of our various slave masters in the name of Jesus Christ.
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