My reading today was in the Book of Exodus – the part where the Israelites have crossed the sea and are in a transitional phase. Not unlike a time where you are not sure what is going to happen tomorrow (a blatant hint that I’m talking about our current time).
Exodus 15:26 say, “If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you.”
Somehow over the years I have equated this to the passage that rang through the early 1970’s – when the Canadian revival took place (II Chronicles 7:14).
“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
Humbling means stepping back from aggrandizing activity. Silence is a part of that – not trying to be the defending voice against accusations that are all too true. Praying is a street that runs two ways.
So, we entreat and request. We listen and obey.