{"id":4321,"date":"2015-02-13T09:52:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T15:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=4321"},"modified":"2015-02-13T09:52:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T15:52:39","slug":"exodus-chapter-13-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=4321","title":{"rendered":"Exodus Chapter 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Exodus-2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4280\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Exodus-2-300x179.jpg?resize=300%2C179\" alt=\"Exodus-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Exodus-2.jpg?resize=300%2C179&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Exodus-2.jpg?resize=200%2C120&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Exodus-2.jpg?w=460&amp;ssl=1 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>God desires to lead us, His people.\u00a0 God went before the Children of Israel, and God goes before us, His church.\u00a0 Our view of God has to be very low when we do not follow Him, nor trust Him.\u00a0 The true, and living God desires to lead us into an abundant life (John <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1086976535\"><span class=\"aQJ\">10:10<\/span><\/span>).\u00a0 Serving God brings a full and abundant life.\u00a0 Our purpose for life is found in the glory of God.\u00a0 Seeing our steps as ones that are ordered by the Lord for His purpose is a phenomenal feeling of security.\u00a0 Our lives can be the hands and feet of God as we live as His workmanship (Ephesians <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1086976536\"><span class=\"aQJ\">2:10<\/span><\/span>).\u00a0 The only requirement for this security is our willingness to surrender our life, and follow Him.\u00a0 The difficulty is to give up our own securities, or at least what we think we can rely on.\u00a0 Our bank accounts, family, work, health, or retirement are all earthly securities that can only be protected by God, and His will and plan for our lives.\u00a0 Having these securities is not wrong.\u00a0 They are all just temporal compared to the eternal securities of walking in the arms of Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4322,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions\/4322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}