“I am the Lord your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the Lord.” – Exodus 6:7b-8
God’s purpose for his people was not to just get OUT of Egypt but to get IN to the promised land.
This has never changed, God’s acts always have a positive focus! As Frances Ridley Havergal, author of the hymn, “Take My Life and Let it Be” wrote 120 years ago,
“[T]he … Christ loving heart cannot be satisfied with only negative keeping … Every, ‘kept from,’ should have its corresponding and still more blessed, ‘kept for’ … not only kept from sin but kept for His praise.1
– fritz
1 – Kept For The Masters Use by Frances Ridley Havergal, 1881, page 23
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