He Still Made A Way
This morning, I was reading in Exodus 14 as I prepared for my Facebook Live devotional "Peace Out." I talked about how the cloud moved around from in front of the Children of Israel to behind them. God's glory was light to the Israelites and total darkness to the Egyptians who were chasing them. God's delivering power and protection are just amazing in this story.
But as I went back to read it again, something else stood out. The Bible is so cool like that! :-)
The Egyptians are pressing in from behind - the Red Sea in front of them. They are sandwiched between two possible unavoidable deaths. First, God moves between them and their pursuing enemy. He protects them from being overtaken and destroyed. That's awesome in itself!
Secondly, while the cloud/fire maintains a strong wall of separation - the wind of God blows all night long across the Red Sea. The result was a seabed that became a dry pathway for the Israelites to walk across. What stood out, was that God created the path in the nighttime. I have to trust that in my night seasons, God is preparing a path for me.
As I backed up in chapter 14 to some earlier verses - I kind of had the thought that they didn't deserve to see God move. Stay with me here. Lol. In verse 10 when the Israelites saw Pharoah's army approaching, they didn't demonstrate much faith. It says they began to panic, and they cried out to the Lord for help.(NLT) And then - they turned against Moses and complained. (v.11) It made me think of all the times I've complained about my life, caregiving, the difficulties, etc. But you know what? God still delivered them.
Even though they were complaining and panicking - God still made a way of escape and used a miracle to do it!
This passage gave me hope this morning, as I was rolling my most pressing needs over to God in prayer. He didn't tell the Israelites, well, you blew it when you went into a panic. Lol - He didn't tell them that He wasn't going to help them because they turned on Moses and complained. He still made a way.
As I sit here wondering how I will ever find a way through some difficulties I'm staring down - I'm reminded and encouraged to know that God still moved on behalf of imperfect people. I needed that today!
Today, I'll remind myself that God will prepare a path for me even in the night seasons. I'm not disqualified because I complain, even though it's better if I don't. God doesn't cast me aside when I go into a panic (3 or 4 times a day!). He just continues to plot and plan my protection and the path He is going to open up for my soul. How cool is that!? I think I can trust Him for one more day - will you join me?
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BOOK OF THE WEEK
Peace Out!
• Did you know God gave us peace and never took it back?
• Do you need a little help refocusing your day?
•Are there really some practical steps to letting God’s peace reign in our hearts?
When the pandemic hit, we were inundated with information and misinformation. I woke up just a day or two into the mass confusion and realized that God’s peace didn’t expire in 2020. What He’d given us was still in tact and applicable to our daily lives, chaotic though they may have been. That’s when the Peace Out devotionals began live on Facebook – and continue to today.
This 31-day devotional takes a good look at peace and offers practical application on how to let it reign day after day. The presence of a storm, trial, or tribulation doesn’t negate God’s peace.
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