FAITH CAPSULE:Giving self to God is serving God.

Exodus 8:20:32, 9:1-7

God spoke to Moses, “I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.” (Exodus 3:12) God repeated His message to Moses in same Exodus 3:18 calling serve as sacrificing as stated, “The Lord God of the Hebrews has met with us; and now, please, let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.”  Obviously, serving God is a sacrifice; sacrifice is serving God. Through Moses, God brought Israelites out bondage to serve Him. Giving self to God is serving God. Bondage or captivity are critical to deny man from serving God. Man does not have excuse not to be giving self to God. Bondage, captivity is agent in place for man not serve (sacrifice) God. Often time, man places self in bondage or captivity which takes man out of serving God. When man pleases self to serve God is actually not pleasing God. Are you paying attention to be pleasing God in your service (sacrifice) before God? It is a priority to be serving God that gives the privilege of life to man. Pharaoh was an agent of the Israelites bondage for not serving God.
It is certain that power belongs to God and it makes it impossible for the enemy to be more powerful. God sent Moses for deliverance of Israelites but Pharaoh repeatedly declined the going of Israelites to go and serve God. Disobedient and hardness of Pharaoh’s heart provoked the hand of God to send plagues over Pharaoh and Egyptian people. It is written, “And in that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, in which My people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, in order that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the land. 23 I will make a difference^] between My people and your people. Tomorrow this sign shall be.” (Exodus 8:22-23)   God does not waste word and His word shall not return to Him without performing. Exodus 8:24 recorded, “And the LORD did so. Thick swarms of flies came into the house of Pharaoh, into his servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt. The land was corrupted because of the swarms of flies.”  All that will consciously or unconsciously take a position not to serve God is taking to a route journey of pain. Also, man in a position of denying others from serving God is calling for Pharaoh and Israelites experience of plagues. In life, man should take to the side of God by serving God because when Jesus will come for ones taking to His side by serving God.
Give self to serving God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to be serving God continually.