(I got way ahead of myself. I guess I am anxious for Thanksgiving to get here. Hey, I'm old and confused. lol I think. Just think you will get two Thanksgiving articles for the price of one.)
"And Moses said unto the people, fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will show to you today: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them again no more forever. 14. The Lord shall fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.” (“Hold your peace” is one biblical way of saying “keep your mouth shut.”) On their way from their escape from Egypt, they came to the Red Sea. They were penned in by the Red Sea in the front and Pharaoh’s army from behind. What could they do? We have “Red Sea” moments in our lives, from which we see no escape. What can we do? We cannot go around them. There was no way that approximately three million people could go around the Red Sea. We don’t think about there being that many of them, but if you will do the math, there were a whole lot of them. We try to find ways to go around our “Red Seas” but the nature of these moments is that there is no way around them. We can wear ourselves out trying to find a way to get around them by “doing it ourselves.” The Israelis had given up and just knew that there was no way around this dilemma. For the people of God there is always a way through their problems. We cannot swim through them. I doubt that any of these people could swim, including Moses and Aaron. Even if they had been Olympic swimmers, there was no way they could swim across the Red Sea with all of their belongings and all of their animals. We also cannot swim through our “Red Seas.” Getting around some of life’s problems, calls for more strength than we can muster. Some of them call for more time than we have to work through them. Some of them demand more knowledge than we have. This was what the Israelis were up against. What could they do? The only thing that they could in this situation was to trust God to do a work that only He could do. Moses told them to “stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.” Moses told them to not be afraid. Fear will keep us from trusting the Lord. Fear causes panic, and that was about to happen in the case of the Israelis. Moses reminded them that the Lord would fight for them. Indeed, He did! The Red Sea was divided and let them through. Only the Lord could do that. We need to remember that the Lord, through the Holy Spirit, is fighting for us, and that He is ready to “divide our ‘Red Seas’” Let’s stand still, “hold our peace” and trust in the salvation and deliverance of the Lord. That is what we do when we come to our “Red Seas.” Bro. Joe
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