"Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him." (Matthew 2:13)This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, "Out of Egypt I called my son." (Matthew 2:15)
Reading Matthew 2 this time made me think deeper about the idea of fleeing to Egypt. Abraham and Issac (if I did not remember wrongly) have had done that too. It seemed to suggest that whenever there was an issue, Egypt was an easy place to seek some kind of refuge.
Don't we use 'Egypt' to symbolise the world today? There are so many things that can allure our sight and pull us away from the things above.
Reading about how the angel of the Lord asked Joseph and family to flee to Egypt and to "remain there until I tell you"... this made me think of the words of Jesus when He prayed for us.
Be in the world, but not of the world.
And yes, we are to remain here, until the Lord tells us it's time.
And then "Out of Egypt, I called my son" can then really apply to us, isn't it?
He will call us back. It is only temporary. And there is a purpose why we are here.
1 comment:
Egypt...the world...sometimes I forget that we are only here on a temporary assignment. "Be in the world, and not of the world"... a simple task yet so hard because temptations, as our desires draw us away from God. *Sigh*
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