Vigelance truly is the price of freedom. By Divine, miraculous intervention, the Israelites were set free from Pharoah and Egypt. They would no longer feel the sting of a whip across their backs, know the pain of families torn asunder. They would now be able to reach their full potential as they obeyed and followed God. Things are no different today.
People believe that they are victims of others.
If they only had political independence, financial freedom, social equality, they would be happy and satisfied. I would be a success. I would be somebody. Then they experience a liberation from what they considered to be the cause of their misery, only to find out that their misery has attended them and simply transferred their enslavement to a new master. There may be the interude of happiness brought about by the change of masters, but the reality will come after the breif ecstasy has passed.