New Beginnings
September 1, 2009
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. Exodus 12:1-2
The Israelites suffered 400 years according to the will of God at the hands of the Egyptians, who had once embraced and fed them under Joseph.Generations later Moses, a Jewish boy adopted by a Pharaohs’ daughter, broke away from the privilege of royalty to deliver his people from slavery. “Let My people go that they may worship and serve Me,” was the Word of the Lord through Moses. Pharaoh refused. Plague after plague was leashed out on Egypt, but the heart of Pharaoh grew harder and harder. Water to blood, frogs, flies, lice and locust infestations, diseased livestock, thunder and hail, darkness and boils infecting man and beast. Still Pharaoh would not let them go.
Finally, God announced that at midnight He would slay the first-born of all Egypt; man and beast. He instructed Moses that each Israelite family spread the blood of a lamb on the doorpost of their home so the angel of death would pass over their home. Familiar story.
But right before the Children of Israel executed the plan that led to their ultimate deliverance from Egypt; God made this statement. “This month shall be unto you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.” Not only am I going to save your family, and bring you out of bondage; but I’m going re-arrange time for you. You will no longer count time from the events of your past. This is a New Beginning. Your first celebration will be deliverance!
The New Beginning didn’t start AFTER the first-born of Egypt were slain. It didn’t start once they left Egypt and passed through the Red Sea. It didn’t start when they set foot on the Promised Land. The New Beginning started when God declared it! fully knowing that all those events would follow.
Timing is in God’s hand. Daniel declared God ‘changes the times and the seasons.’ (Daniel 2:21) Solomon echoed that He has ‘made everything beautiful in His time.’ (Ecc. 3:11) David made it personal, ‘My times are in Thy hand.’ (Psalm 31:15)
Is God declaring a New Beginning for you today?
