The Lord Will Fight For You
Working as the Head Girls Counselor at ACU Leadership Camps has been an amazing experience this summer. I have worked on staff for three years before and so I have grown accustomed to the camp curriculum and going through the same theme four different times (and 3 different times) every summer. This year the theme for our high school camp, Kadesh, is Freedom. This curriculum has spoken to me and shaped me differently every week. This past week God has revealed to me that our Freedom in Christ has already been won (for believers in Christ and those who walk in relationship with Him) but now we choose to claim that freedom and walk in it. He has spoken over me out of Exodus 14. The Israelites have already been set free from the Egytians who enslaved them. The Israelites were treated horribly: their babies were killed, they were forced to worship foreign gods, they had cruel masters dictating their lives. Not long after God used Moses to lead them to freedom toward the promise land, the land flowing with milk and honey, they began crying out and complaining. They were afraid of walking in freedom because the slavery that they knew was familiar and easy and they wanted to go back. (Ex.14:10-12) This story was familiar to me because i found myself in it. This past semester I have been asking God the same questions about different situations and life transitions that i have been making: "why are you leading me here, i want to go back to when it was easy and i felt safe and i knew what my future was going to look like" It was here that God spoke to me the same way that he spoke to them so long ago: "Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The egyptians you see today you will never see again. The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still...Why are you complaining to me? Tell the Israelites to MOVE ON. Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground." (Ex. 14:13-16) God will fight for you. You need only to be still. If we will agree to be in the presence of the One who set us free every day then we will know the true meaning of walking in freedom. We will experience freedom from the masters that control us every day, the ones that tell us what to do, what to think, how to feel about ourselves, etc. It is here that we must believe that Jesus has bought our freedom at the cross and that He is still about setting captives free every day and in every situation. If Christ has set you free then you are Free indeed, let us no longer be burdened by the heavy weighy of slavery! The Lord will fight for you, you need only to be still!
