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Friday of the Second Week in Lent
THE FORGETFULNESS OF INGRATITUDE

Acts 7:30-40 (New International Version)
30 "After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai. 31 When he saw this, he was amazed at the sight. As he went over to look more closely, he heard the Lord's voice: 32 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.' Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.
33 "Then the Lord said to him, 'Take off your sandals; the place where you are standing is holy ground. 34 I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.'
35 "This is the same Moses whom they had rejected with the words, 'Who made you ruler and judge?' He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush. 36 He led them out of Egypt and did wonders and miraculous signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea and for forty years in the desert.
37 "This is that Moses who told the Israelites, 'God will send you a prophet like me from your own people.' 38 He was in the assembly in the desert, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; and he received living words to pass on to us.
39 "But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt. 40 They told Aaron, 'Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who led us out of Egypt—we don't know what has happened to him!'

Instead of welcoming him with open arms after he struck down an Egyptian, Moses’ own people rejected him with a derisive question, “Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?” Things did not pan out as Moses had hoped. Instead of a savior, he became exile. For the next four decades he was forgotten man.

But God did not forget him. Nor did the Lord forget he afflicted people in Egypt. The world may forget. Our memory may fade. And we may even have grown accustomed to our chains. But the Lord remembers. He hears our cries.

Through a flaming bush and a commanding word, the Lord summoned Moses to His service. With a punishing flurry of signs and wonders, Israel was rescued from Pharaoh’s grip. God delivered His promise through Moses.

Yet, no sooner had the erstwhile slaves tasted freedom that they began to clamor for the gods of Egypt. Rejecting Moses, the people wanted gods on their own terms. And this from those who had just witnessed and experience the Lord’s mighty deliverance!

Unfortunately, the tribe of forgetful ingrates lives on the even today. The delivered are wont to forget the Deliverer despite enjoying the blessing of deliverance. When we make no effort to recall and celebrate God’s gracious acts on the behalf, we soon find ourselves hankering after the glamour gods of this world.

The antidote to such forgetfulness is gratefulness. Calvary is God’s definitive act of deliverance. What happened in Exodus is but an anticipation of the more profound deliverance from sin that God achieved through Christ on the cross. Remembering Calvary and being grateful for the gift of new life in Christ keeps us firmly in God’s love.
Commitment:
I resolve to keep Calvary fresh in my mind and be ever grateful to God for his wondrous deliverance in Christ.

Prayer:
Knowing how prone I am to forget you and you goodness, help me, dear Lord, to be always mindful of your presence and grace. Amen.



All Lent Devotion materials are taken from 'Take Up Your Cross' - Daily Devotion for Lent 2009 by Bible Society of Singapore.

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