Tues.’s Devo - Through the Red Sea

Read Ex. 14:15-31 I love God’s response to Moses when he gets a little anxious: “why are you crying out to me just do what I said and go forward.” Then he tells him how: just lift up your rod and stretch it toward the sea and the people will walk on dry land. Pharaoh will follow and I will finish them off. I would love to have that much direction. Moses was a true prophet and God says in his Word that he never does anything he doesn’t first tell his prophets he is going to do. Next, the angel of the Lord went from in front them to behind them and stood as a pillar of cloud so that they Egyptians couldn’t see what the Israelites were doing. Moses stretched out his hand over the waters and the Lord caused a strong east wind to blow over the sea all night parting the waters and drying the land. They crossed the sea with the waters as a wall on either side and the pillar of cloud behind them, and the Egyptians behind the cloud. That took faith! In the morning, God started messing with the Egyptian army and their chariot wheels started just falling off. They realized that they were fighting a force stronger than them. They were fighting Almighty God and losing. By that time, Moses’s people had all made it safely on the other side. God told Moses to stretch forth his hand and when he did the invisible wall that held the waters broke and the waters came crashing down on the Egyptians and drowned all of them. When Israel saw this, they feared God and Moses (for a while). Lord, you make a way where there seems no way. Glory to your Name!