Devotion:
Read Exodus 14:15-22.
I cannot imagine walking into a passageway on the damp bed of the Red Sea with a wall of water to my left and a wall of water to my right. My little engineer mind would be racing through the few things that I remember from my fluid dynamics classes. Fluids like water do not stack up and make walls! I would be looking for the dams that surely must have been holding back the water, and I might have even reached out a tentative hand to touch the water. No dam there...my hand would get wet! I would have been amazed at what God, through Moses, had done. But then, all kinds of doubts would begin to creep in. What guarantee was there that the walls of water would not come crashing in upon me and my fellow Children of Israel?
This is not a question of fluid dynamics or physics. Nor is it a matter that demands a guarantee. It is, however, something that requires faith. I have never faced the literal situation described in today’s passage. But I have and will continue to face situations that require faith in order to go forward. Sometimes our situations seem impossible, but God goes before, beside, and behind us. We must step out in faith!
Personal Worship Option:
What are you facing now that seems daunting, perhaps even impossible? We all face those times. Pray today for courage and faith, knowing that God is with you, and nothing is impossible for our God!
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