I was RESCUED.

I’m in Exodus now. I actually have a lot of things in Genesis I made note of that I want to share…but this morning, the language around the Lord “rescuing” them from Egypt stands out to me so big because I, too, was rescued out of Egypt.

Those exact words were used.

One minute, I was a highly driven, high performing, type A over achiever who was IN the world and OF the world as a believer…taking my clues of who I was from the slave masters and drivers of PERFORMANCE and PRODUCING.

I have soooo much to say about this.

But don’t you know, right smack dab in the middle of that drivenness, the Lord showed up in a dramatic way. My business brain that was highly functioning one day was like mush the next day. What I thought was my path yesterday was clearly not my path the next day.

It was a WILD season.

Day after day I would cry out.

My identity was being crushed.

Everything I had attached to my identity disappeared.

One day, in my crying and grumbling and complaining (just like the Israelites) I said to the Lord…”what in the world!??? What is going on!?! One day I’m working and building and goal setting and doing all the things…and the next day I’m just sitting here unable to DO a thing!?? I feel like I’ve been KIDNAPPED!!”

His quiet answer: “You have it all wrong my dear. You have NOT been kidnapped, you’ve been RESCUED.”

It was an extraction. He pulled me out. He rescued me.

And, just like the Israelites, I’ve found myself over and over again wanting to “GO BACK to Egypt” where it’s familiar and where I know what to do and where I can produce and perform and gain titles and get recognition and be “known” 🤪.

But, we weren’t made for Egypt. We were made to trust him daily and to follow the cloud and to go where he shows us to go. We were made to live from ease and rest and not from being driven to produce.

STILL…18 years later…I have to sometimes fight the mentality that was produced in me from operating IN the world for so long. It’s a process. But this morning, I’m so grateful I was rescued by the greatest rescuer ever known.

xox.eb