The Correct Response to God's Intervention in our Lives: Worship

Whatever else one can say about the group of Israelites that came out of Egypt, their initial response to Moses's message that God had sent him to deliver his people from captivity was absolutely correct. Moses tells us the people believed; they bowed their heads; they worshipped (Exod 5.31).

It was what followed afterwards, when the deliverance was not immediate and the burden grew worse instead of better, that the people failed, and then again in the desert, they failed multiple times.

It should be a lesson for us. We can start well and immediately veer off into the ditch; or we can start well and do well for awhile and then veer off into the ditch; or we can even be going along well for a long time and then...into the ditch. The Christian life is a life of watching and analyzing to make sure that we obey the Holy Spirit and stay faithful. We should emulate the Israelites first response: believe, bow, and worship.