THE KNIFE BRINGS SEPARATION

When a woman has labor pain any modern doctor will tell you, that your pain will increase as you fight against it. For me to deliver in natural childbirth, I have to go through labor in my body, and during the labor I have to find a rest so that my body will relax and not fight the birth process. Today many of us strive to reach levels, depths, and understanding, but we do not strive to labor to enter into rest. The enemy wants to bring us into the Land of Nod, which means restlessness, and keep us from entering into the promises of God.

Cain was the son of Adam and Eve, the brother of Abel. Cain was cast out of the presence of God. When we are cast out of the presence of God, we are in a state of restlessness. Out of the lineage of Cain, entertainment was produced. Within every one of us, there is a cry within us to fulfill our destiny and the purpose of our lives. When we do not come into that rest in God to birth forth our destiny, we will be in the land of restlessness, where we strive to fill the void within us that only Christ can fill in the reality and power of God.

Moses was drawn out of the river Nile. He must have recognized that he did not belong to Egypt and that he was a Hebrew. As he saw the injustice, he killed the Egyptian and had to flee because he did not come into the rest to fulfill his destiny.

Moses escaped, went to the Midianites and married a woman and started a normal life. Many of us start a normal life, but somewhere deep within, we have a longing for something we do not understand. I know in my own life, God has spoken to me at times, and I have missed it, and I did not come into that rest of my innermost being.

Moses married a woman, Zipporah, which means a little singing bird. Every time he felt the restlessness because he did not know how to fulfill his calling, Zipporah would sing him a song to tame him.

As Moses saw the burning bush and went on his way to fulfill his calling, he had to face the knife of circumcision that God commanded, and there had to come a power within his life. He had not yet experienced the knife on his sons because the entertainment, the music had soothed him, so that he forgot that the sharpness of the knife had to separate his life.

In His Love,
      Sigi

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