The Battle Still Rages On

There are two Kingdoms, Darkness and Light.
These two Kingdoms are at war and they have been for thousands of years.
The outcome is already determined, the victory already ours, yet the battle still rages on.
Why is this?
Well I think God gives us a pretty good picture of this proclaimed victory that still requires a battle, in the story of the children of Israel and the Exodus out of Egypt
In Exo 4:21 it says “And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.”

The Lord purposely hardened Pharaoh’s heart.
Why did He do that?
To make things harder on poor Moses? He didn’t even want to go in the first place.
Why didn’t God just make Pharaoh let the Children of Israel go? He can do it He’s God, right? I mean, shouldn’t He at least be softening Pharaoh’s heart?

The LORD gives His reason in Exo 14: 4 (As if He even needs to. He’s GOD. He can do what He wants. But He’s good and He loves us and wants us to know Him)
“And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.”

The Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart because He had a plan. Not to make Moses and Aaron’s lives more difficult. He hardened Pharaoh’s heart that He might receive honor and that the Egyptians might know that He is the LORD.

Moses and Aaron were asked to fight the battle with Pharaoh for God’s glory. Yet in themselves they did not fight. God fought for them, they simply obeyed.

This is the same kind of battle God is calling us to fight. The battle that has already been won. The battle to bring glory and honor to the name of our King; that all the earth may know that He is LORD, for He is worthy to be praised.

In order to fight this wonderful, impossible-without-God, battle we must be willing to leave all that we have, Just as Moses left his home in Midian, and fallow the commands of the LORD.
We must obey the commands of God when He tells us to “throw down our rod”; even if we’re not sure that He will let us pick it up again.
We have to be willing to step out in faith and stretch out our hand, believing that God truly will part the red sea.

And just like He did with Moses, Aaron, and the children of Israel, He will be faithful to deliver us from the hands of the enemy.
Not only will He deliver us, but if we believe, He will fill us with His Spirit. So that we might be used (like Moses and Aaron) as tools in the great plan to set the captives free from the bondage of the enemy.
He will dwell in and trough us and enable us to go forth, and by the power of His Spirit living through us, set the captives free.

“Thy Kingdom Come. Thy will be done, in earth as it is in Heaven.”~Mat 6:10
It’s already done in heaven. Let us fight to see it done here on earth.
For the Kingdom and His Glory!