You may be in a foreign country.
You may be a
slave.
You may be oppressed and suppressed.
You may be unknown and ignored.
But if you are faithful to HIM, GOD can and will multiply your descendants even if you are dead
and gone.
It was Abraham’s fear of GOD and GOD’s love for Abraham, that
even though they were dead and gone, GOD watched over Israel and greatly
multiplied them.
So, if you fear and love GOD even though you are dead and gone
and no one remembers you because you mean nothing to them, GOD will ensure that
your descendants will greatly multiply. It’s a promise to a thousand
generations.
What a legacy to leave behind!
Exodus 1: 5-12
5. The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.
6. Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
7. but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.
8. Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.
9. “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us.
10. Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”
11. So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
12. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.
Exodus 20: 6
6. But showing love to a thousand generations of
those who love ME and keep MY COMMANDMENTS.
