As I shared in the last devotional, after 400 years of oppression, the Israelites lost their identity as God’s special children, and instead they settled to be slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt. Under relentless pressure, they were vexed, which caused them to forget about who they were in God’s eyes.
Reclaiming Our Identity
In order to combat vexation, we need to reclaim our identity in Christ.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. Ephesians 6:3-6
The Bible tell us that the Lord is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His purposes in the life of His children remain the same regardless of difficulties. If we continue to walk in the Lord’s ways, there is nothing that can separate us from His love! If we have fallen in sin due to discouragement, we should repent and ask the Lord for forgiveness, so we can maintain the right relationship with the Lord.
Our spiritual blessings and our place in God’s kingdom is reserved for us, and it is unshakable. The Lord is continually at work in us to form the image of Jesus and to produce the fruit of the spirit in our lives. We are no longer orphans, but we are adopted as God’s children, and He has taken personal responsibility to develop us into the original purpose that He created us for. This is God’s pleasure and His delight!
The Lord accepts us as His beloved and dearly loved children. Because He is love, He continues to embrace us with His acceptance because He is not intimidated by our flaws. Instead, He has a long-term plan to see our issues dissolved in the ocean of His love and surrendered at the Cross.
These truths establish the identity of God’s children and solidify the truth that the Lord has not forgotten about them. Today. spend some time meditating on the scripture and who you are in Christ. Don’t allow the circumstances of life or the people around you to derail you from your true identity. You are His, and He has the ultimate say in your life!
2 thoughts on “Being Vexed (Part II)”
Jessica
Amen!! You are so right. There are time when I do feel like God’s distant but when I confess the scripture it goes away. I love this devotional about being vexed. I never really thought about what vexed meant.
Amen!! You are so right. There are time when I do feel like God’s distant but when I confess the scripture it goes away. I love this devotional about being vexed. I never really thought about what vexed meant.
Praise God! Thanks for sharing Jessica.