Article May 5, 2014 Issue

Sacred accounts, modern application

Lois Degler

The Bible is a book of stories, in most cases about real people. They are accounts from thousands of years ago, but we can find ourselves in them. And I feel we really need to do this because these are our stories, too. They’re about us, and about now.

Think of Moses. At one point God revealed Himself to Moses as the great I AM, the one God, and then told Moses to go to Egypt and free the enslaved Israelites. God was with Moses and the people, providing whatever was needed throughout the years of their journey from slavery to the Promised Land.

This is a wonderful story about God’s power and love for His people. God is the same God today—the same loving, fathering-mothering God in our lives. And so as we put ourselves in the story, we see that it’s a promise to us, a revelation of what is true here and now as well. God chooses us for a good purpose, and through His Christ reveals Himself to us as the God who unfailingly leads us to spiritual freedom—freedom from whatever would try to enslave us.

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