The Parting of the Red Sea

So, I have been looking at some artwork of a friend and she was asking friend's advice on what to name her latest piece and it struck me that it appeared to me like the beginning of the parting of the Red Sea and I started to feel like there was something much deeper here and then I started listening and things started rolling out.

I know what it feels like to have my back to an insurmountable obstacle and facing overwhelming circumstances? You want to cry out to God that you were doing everything you can. You try to follow what you think He wants and you still end up here; nowhere to go and no way to go back.

Then God reminded me that the people of Israel had their backs to an insurmountable sea and they faced an overwhelming army of men and horses and chariots. Nowhere to go, death before them and destruction behind them, and then God reveled Himself in a death defying and undeniable way. Over and over in the Bible there are stories of God's followers seemingly trapped by life and circumstances, sometimes out of their control and sometimes of their own making. But THEN God reveals Himself and they learn that He was there all along. The Children of Israel are one of the best examples of that. But the plan goes back so much further and can only be seen from nearer the endgame.

Not the beginning, but picking up when Joseph's brothers were so jealous that they sold him to Egypt to be a slave. (Not a good thing) and Joseph ends up in a situation, NOT of his own making and innocent that gets him thrown into jail. (Again, not a good thing). But it is there that he meets and makes the connections that eventually lead to him becoming second only to the Prince of Egypt and in a position to save the entire Jewish race from starvation. Roll forward a couple hundred years and the Israelites became so numerous that Egypt feared what they might do and eventually forced them into slavery, even going so far as to murder all of the 1st born male children to stop their population expansion. It was during this time a baby boy, that would have otherwise been killed, was placed in a floating basket and cast into the Nile (where the crocodiles lived, you know the big aggressive ones) only to float safely up to a bathing Egyptian Princess and became adopted as her own; becoming a Prince of Egypt. His own birth mother brought in as a wet nurse to teach him the ways of his own people. So when he saw his people being abused, he could not stand by and ended up through a series of events lasting over 40 years, including some bad choices of his own, becoming a vessel for God to speak through to the King of Egypt to demand that the Israelites be released from their bondage. In this process was also a whole list of events that the world had never seen before or since in a list of plagues that swept through Egypt ending in the death of all 1st born sons with whom the Passover blood had not been posted (A little payback perhaps). And so the people walked out of Egypt, dancing and singing, only to end up on the banks of the Red Sea with nowhere to run or hide and death on their heels. And God showed up. He literally dried a path through the depths of an ocean (can you imagine the canyon walls of water so high you couldn't see the top, but the sand you walk on firm and dry) then he appeared as a funnel of flame that held the Egyptian army back until the Israelites had time to cross that vast sea. This was not a quick jaunt across a pond, but a journey that took days and nights of walking and camping to get thousands of people across an ocean on foot. And when they were across the funnel disappeared and the army charged in. (I always wonder what they were thinking... being told to charge into a path cut through walls of water). Then God released the water and the army was swallowed by the Sea.

So, I reminded you of that, to tell you this. God has a plan. That plan has not been messed up due to anything we or anyone else has done. That plan was set in motion long before we were born, like a movie whose lines we were born to say because even though we will make the choices, God knew from the beginning what those choices would be. We cannot circumvent God. He is far more powerful than anything we can do. So don’t be afraid that you messed up God’s plan for your life.  If you have made mistakes, repent, and face forward with the intent to live more Christ like from this point on.

If you are out there, up against a wall of unending water that only seems to pull you down to drown in the depths. God is about the show up. I don't know exactly when or where or how, but He is about to start parting the water and don’t waste your time worrying about the things you cannot control. Step forward when He calls time to move and have Faith that He is about to step in with miracles that the world has not seen before. God is getting ready to make His presence known to the world and to His people and the harvest is about to begin. So make ready. Gather what is important to you and your family, prepare yourself for God to move and most of all, be prepared to move with Him.  Blessings in this new year and keep watch. The time is drawing ever close

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