Vision of Egypt, the Slave House

“And Moses said to the people, Remember this day on which you came out from Egypt, from the slave house, for by strength of hand Jehovah brought you out from this place; and nothing leavened shall be eaten.” (Exodus 13:3, 4; 20:2; Deuteronomy 5:6; 6:12; 7:8, 8:14; 13:5, 10; Joshua 24:17; Judges 6:8; Micah 6:4, RecVer)

In my study of the Bible, the Lord showed me a new light concerning the world and all its vain glory. Though I knew vaguely that Egypt is a type of the world, never was I so deeply enlightened to dread the reality of this vain world. The glitters and glamours of this world looks so luxuriously attractive. In fact, many people, including the believers, have labored and ran after this deceptive world without realising what the world truly is. The world is a mere slave house. Implying that, laboring and living in this world is actually a slavery. What glory is there in slavery? What is there to be proud of being a slave? The world, Egypt, according to the Bible and in the eyes of God is just a slave house.

Having seen this vision of the world, will anyone take pride in anything of the world? Only the blind and the fools will. I surely would not wish to be one among the blind and the fools. May the Lord have mercy on me that I would no longer be deceived by the world. May the Lord opened the eyes of the saints that we no longer be deceived by the glitters and glamours of this world.

I repent even for dreaming of having any future in the world. I repent of dreaming and wishing my children to be somebody in the world. Of course, I will give them the best education possible, but definitely not for the world. People may study hard and invest in education to become somebody in the world, but I no longer. All my vain dreams in the world have been shattered by this one vision of the world. The world is just a slave house. 

“For the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, who is a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard. And having agreed with the workmen for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, And to those he said, You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went.” (Matthew 20:1-4, RecVer)

All the knowledge, skill, and education we learned in the world, if they are not useful to the Lord they are definitely vain. Anyone laboring NOT in the Lord’s vineyard is standing idle. All that he does in the world and are not for the Lord are worthless to God and are reckoned himself as "standing idle."

My heart cries out to all the children of God who are not laboring in the Lord's vineyard, "Please do not waste your time and energy for nothing. Serve the Lord, even in your worldly job. Serve the Lord by making use of the access to the world to gain people from the world for the Lord. Or atleast, plunder the world and offer your earning for the Lord’s work."

Looking back at my life, I simply worship the wise God who had called me out of the world to serve Him. All my shattered worldly dreams have now been replaced by the joy, peace and satisfaction of laboring in the Lord’s vineyard. What a salvation from Egypt, the slave house!

Lord, open the eyes of Your children to see the worthlessness of the world and the worthiness of Yourself!