Exodus notes… charting charting
charting…
'At
this point Moses doesn't know what to do, they are facing the wilderness of the
Red Sea . He has no knowledge what God will do
but he knows that he is with him. He has just told his fearful people to fear
not but he is silent, possibly praying asking what he should do. The Lord
responds quickly and strongly, he asks Moses why he cries out to him, he says
he needs to tell the people to go forward. Then he proceeds to give him
instructions and the sea parts. What God was saying here was that Moses didn't need to ask what to do next he just needed to have faith and step forward. God asks the rhetorical question to make him
think. God was trusting Moses with the abilities he had put in him, he was
maturing in his faith and God could see that. Now what God needed was his
people to step forward even into the unknown and he would do the impossible by
parting a giant ocean. God’s faithfulness is revealed by the line that says his
people went through the sea on dry ground. He even gave them a dry ground to
walk on!'
Mini Application (Not so mini):
Sometimes we wait at our
own personal Red Sea and ask God what to do.
He has already led you there and yet you do not make the first step because you
do not know what will happen. What God says is that you can take that first step
and go forward knowing that he will provide for you dry ground to walk upon. He
will not leave you or let you drown he will not just carry you across he will
part the obstacles so you can safely cross. The other thing about crossing the
Sea means there is something on the other side, which brings hope and a
promise. They were not called to live in the middle of the sea but through to
the other side. We can have this faith too and confidently step out into our
calling.
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