Dry Ground in the Sea
Exodus 14:28 – The water returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh that was coming after the Israelites into the sea – not so much as one of them survived! 29 – But the Israelites walked on dry ground in the middle of the sea, the water forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.
verse 30 – So the LORD saved Israel on that day from the power of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore of the sea. 31 – When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, they feared the LORD, and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.
There was no longer any doubt about God for the Israelite. The Egyptians discovered the power of God too as they struggled against the returning waters while trying to drive chariots with jammed wheels. Their struggle was so severe that they testified in fear “Let’s flee from Israel, for the LORD fights for them against Egypt!” – Exodus 14:25. The truth of their statement was evident from the very beginning when they witnessed the staff of Moses becoming a snake. It began as a game to the Egyptians as they squared off against God. It ended in tragedy as every refusal to obey led to another more graphic demonstration of God’s omnipotent power. The hearts of the Egyptians were so hard that they presumed the dry ground in the middle of the sea was their way to get to the Israelites and not a way for the Israelites to get away from them.
Will our hearts become so hard that we will take advantage of the blessings of God to use them for our selfish purposes? We, too, will make the solemn discovery that the same sun God causes to rise on the righteous and the wicked will one day be light to one and scorching fire to the other. We can find reference to this in the middle of the seven last plagues described in Revelation 16. “Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was permitted to scorch people with fire. Thus people were scorched by the terrible heat, yet they blasphemed the name of God, who has ruling authority over these plagues, and they would not repent and give him glory.” – verses 8 and 9.
When Jesus comes again to fight for His people there will no longer be any doubt. Jesus, the creator, controls the elements. In the end it won’t be waters parting; it will be the skies rolling up like a scroll to admit passage for every believer in the promises of God. None of the wicked will be able to follow the righteous as they defy gravity and head into the skies to meet their Lord in the air.
Let’s believe in the Lord today. The Lord who can provide dry ground in the middle of the sea. The Lord who can provide peace in the midst of the storm. The Lord who can save to the uttermost. The Lord whose love never fails and whose love is everlasting!
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