Thoughts for another day

Oct. 17, 2013.

Today's verse: Ex. 14:21. And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.  (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

The Israelites had left Egypt behind and camped before the Red sea.  And now God induced the heart of Pharaoh to follow them in his quest to not release them from slavery from the land of Egypt and bring them back.  God did this to show His awesome and last sign to seek great glory through the destroyed army of Egypt and Pharaoh, so that the Egyptians will always know that the Lord alone was God. 

When the Israelites looked up, they were chilled to their bones to see the furious Egyptians in hot pursuit and they murmured in distress to Moses, crying in remorse for having gone out of Egypt to die as they put it, in the desert.  Now they had two options before them, one, to perish in the sea or two, to turn and fight the Egyptians and both were a no-no.  They never thought of the third option for they never accorded respect to God for all the marvelous signs He had wrought in Egypt against the Egyptians.  But God in His mercy opened Moses’ thinking to the third option –the parting of the waters of the sea and the appearing of level ground, dried by the mighty hand of God for them to walk on; which our Scripture above tells us.  And God did it for them and they were saved and we see that the waters came back on to the Egyptians, when they attempted to cross the sea. 

This, my friend is very relevant to us, in that, many times today, we too have two options – the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ types.  But I urge you to keep the third ‘God’ option open.  You may not know what that option is or how it will run its course but I can assure you, it will help you cross your sea of tribulation and bring you out victoriously, slamming your enemies, be it people, or a disease, or a financial sickness or whatever.  And that will cause you great occasion to praise God.