Seize the Moment – Day 455
Come Under Right Authority!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, June 15.
Jesus made it very clear that living your life with great faith is to live your life under authority.
Under whose authority do you live your life?
Pharaoh gives us an interesting insight into the human condition—we only submit to the authority of that which we recognize. Listen to the first interaction between Moses and Pharaoh in Exodus 5:1-2,
And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let My people go that they may celebrate a feast to Me in the wilderness.’ ” But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and besides, I will not let Israel go.”
It will take many more exchanges and ten horrific plagues to convince Pharaoh of his error in judgment about God’s authority over him, and until that time, there would be significant loss of life and a great devastation to the Egyptian land and way of life.
It would take a great and divine compulsion for Pharaoh’s heart to relinquish control. Because this LORD that Pharaoh did not know about nor would recognize as having any authority over his sovereign rule of Egypt would demonstrate His ultimate sovereignty and absolute power over all things, with or without Pharaoh’s approval.
The same is true in our own lives!
Seize the moment and accept God’s sovereign rule of your life today—take on the yoke of Jesus Christ and come under the authority of God. His desire is for you to be free of Pharaoh, both from being one and from being under one. Jesus’ yoke is easy and His burden is light.