God Brings

Exodus 19:4 “‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.”
 
SETTLE your mind for a moment and consider God’s words, “how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.” Who formed the union between God and his people? Of course, it is the LORD God. In his grace, he planned to create a people he would bring to himself. His power would form and sustain them, so they would be his people. This grace is, indeed, amazing.  
      This is God’s way. Let’s remember another union God graciously formed long before Israel. We know God created man. Then there was one more thing to do to complete his creation. With love and mercy God looked upon Adam to say, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." (Genesis 2:18) Lovingly, God created a woman. And he did so not with just a spoken word, but out of Adam’s rib. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.” (Genesis 2:22) See how he brought them together to form a perfect, complete union. This is the power of God.
      What was next for Adam & Eve? You could say God brought to the first marriage a purpose. Obeying his commands, they would “rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”  (Genesis 1:26) Do you see the pattern? God creates. He brings his creation to himself. He gives his creation a purpose to be his ambassadors on earth to give praise to his name.
      In that same manner, then, God created Israel. He brought the people to himself. He set them apart out of the world, then out of Egypt. He gave them a purpose to bless the world as they obeyed God’s commands. This was their mission.
      Ultimately the Jews would bless the world. Through his nation, our Father in heaven brought his Savior to the earth. He graciously gave his one and only son that whoever will believe in him will be saved. (John 3:16) The Father and the Son then brought the Holy Spirit into the world. Through the Spirit today, the LORD God brings you to himself as, “the Spirit gives birth to spirit.” (John 3:6b) He forms with you and the church a holy relationship. By his grace, he has done this to create you as his own. He blesses you with new life to “go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” (Mathew 28:19). Now it’s your time to be his ambassadors. With God’s power you are to bless the world. You get to be God’s voice to help bring people to him.   
 
LIFE Link: Are you with God? Praise him. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will. (Ephesians 1:4-5)