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St. Luke’s Institute
Wed 16th
Week OT
July 24, 2013
THE EXODUS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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We can identify w/ real-life humanity of Israelites in 1st
reading
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Led by Moses, escaped from slavery Egypt
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Life very hard & Egyptian masters were cruel
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Israelites escaped in amazing event we call Exodus
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Looking ahead 2 freedom & better life in land promised by God
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But 1st had to get there and had 2 go thru desert
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Things not so good in desert
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Journey long & hot & food minimal
SHIFT IN
PERSPECTIVE / LOOKING BACK +++++++++++
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So, started 2 complain
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& suddenly looked back 2 Egypt & wondered why they’d ever
left
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& heat & food & long journey led them 2 forget where
they going & what lay ahead, new land
VERY HUMAN +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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So very human?
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When life gets tough we look back & wish good old days here
again
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Sometimes, understandable, hardship & hard work cause us 2
lose perspective when it’s imp not 2
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May forget things not really that good or may forget goal that we
really want 2 achieve
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We too might grumble in our desert
BUT WHAT TO DO +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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What’re we 2 do at these times?
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Find some answer in what God does for Israelites
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Gives them daily food – enough for each day
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So G called & calls us 2 focus on day – on doing what we’ve to
do even if it’s hard & don’t feel like it, and on keeping in mind R goal or
what G seems to be calling u to do.
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We need to do this prayerfully, asking for and looking for G’s
help, as in manna & quail in story
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And need 2 do every day, if we’re going 2 complete journey
CONCLUSION
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Sometimes we’ll do this out of a strength we did not think we had
– and that’s grace of G
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But do it we must & then one day, we too reach land G’s
promised us
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