Exodus 4:25 English Standard Version (ESV)

²⁵ Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!”

We sometimes are given unpleasant task which we begrudgingly perform because circumstances lead us to believe we have no choice. It is interesting to me how Zipporah blames Moses rather than God.

This comes down to a matter of marital attitude for Zipporah. She is in fear of losing her husband because Moses had not obeyed God in the issue of circumcision of the son. It was not the custom of the Medians and Zipporah took it upon herself to submit to something she didn’t believe.

Do we see Christ as a bridegroom of blood to us? If it were not for His blood sacrifice we would not be His betrothed. Blood is very much a part of our relationship. Will we take an attitude that if we do not obey, we will lose our relationship with our Lord?

I remember a time when I yelled at the Lord; “Fine have it your way.” It was a begrudgingly submission of attitude which was solely my fault. Bad attitudes are our failings, not His. The humanity in us does not like to give up desires that we have lived with for a long time. Surrendering to His will isn’t always pleasing to the soul.

Once we give in we should immediately surrender the attitude also. We lost the argument, stop arguing. Don’t whimper and whine and carry those attitudes into our relationship with others. It is a poor representation to the lost and those new in the Lord. Our attitudes can influence others. If we care for others let us not be a bad influence.

If we do not care about others, well then we do have a problem.

Colossians 2:1-4 English Standard Version (ESV)

¹ For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, ² that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, ³ in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. ⁴ I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments.

These devotionals go out into the World Wide Web to be seen by anyone that might find them while they seek God. I can relate to Paul’s words not having seen them face to face. I too struggle with the words to reach them at a time where a word in due season might be used of God.

I have no knowledge of what plausible arguments they might hear which mislead them away from a closer relationship with God. I can only relate to those things which I have seen and heard which are stained with Satan’s breath. I cannot believe that I have experienced all the rich lies of the enemy.

This is why the truth must be repeated over and over again. Only truth can combat all lies.

The one thing Doctor Keith Lamb repeated nearly every sermon was; “Repetition is the price for knowledge.”

What can I repeat that will have the most benefit to any reader?

It might be “Christ in you.”

Colossians 3:15-17 English Standard Version (ESV)

¹⁵ And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. ¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. ¹⁷ And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.