Devoted in Love to our Rescuer
Israel were harshly treated by Pharaoh, but Yahweh rescued them, and brought them out so that he could bring them to the promised land. Without God, they are nothing and nowhere - stuck in slavery, as good as dead. We know that in the gospel, our story is similar. We have been rescued from slavery to sin. What sort of a love should we have for God in response? Deuteronomy 6 tells us that in response, we love the Lord or God with all our heart and with all our soul and all our strength. And in loving God, we love to see others loving him also - in particular, our children. We teach our children (whether biological or spiritual - children in the church community) what it is to be rescued from slavery, and how to live in response. Our prayer is that as we live out our rescue story, it becomes their story too.
