I regularly find myself scared of the unknown. Human nature is to stick with what we know rather then head of into the unknown. We would rather continue a life of misery then try something new. We regularly retreat to the slavery of sin rather then the freedom of the unknown life without it and with God.
10 As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the LORD. 11 They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? 12 Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”
How could it be that human nature leads us to want to live as a slave with no future or freedom? As believers we have had the opportunity to cast of the chains of our slavery (sin) and travel off into the unknown land of seeking God. The problem for most though, is that God is unknown. They can wrap their minds around the known, no matter how rough it is. They can't seem to understand Christ and salvation. Our jobs as a Christian is to take the place of Moses in our friends lives, helping them navigate out of slavery into the freedom that can be found in a relationship with Christ. The question is, will you work to the front and lead in a new direction or fall to back and complain about not being comfortable?
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