Good morning,
Why
do you think God arranged for his special people to get stuck between a
great big sea and an angry hoard of heavily armed troops when he took
them out of their slavery? He had promised them the promised land and
now these newly freed slaves could only think in terms of total
disaster. Moses wasn’t a slave, but now he knew that there was no
possible way they could escape the wrath of this huge army of hateful
men. Did he worry? There was nothing in all of his training or
background that gave him any training for getting out of a military
situation of this sort. He did have training of a different sort that
got him out of this mess. Moses had learned to trust a miracle working
God, so he said, “Don’t be afraid. Just stand still and watch the Lord
rescue you today. The Egyptians you see today will never be seen again.
The Lord himself will fight for you. Just stay calm. (Exodus 14:13,14)
The next verse tells us that Moses spoke with faith, but boy was he
afraid. God said, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the people to get
moving!”
Moses was God’s man, but he was still a man. Paul, a
man of faith, had lived through many overwhelming circumstances in his
travels, but he was still a man as well. What kept Moses and Paul going
was learning that when overwhelmed buy circumstances, worry doesn’t
solve anything. What works is to start talking to God about what you
see and think and what you need, but don’t whine about it. If we thank
God that he knows what he is doing and then rest in his solutions to our
situation, God will gift us with his peace. Often his answer doesn’t
happen as soon as we want or work out the way we think he will solve the
challenge, but if we commit ourselves to trusting and waiting on him,
he will give us his peace. The peace he gives us doesn’t make sense and
often our enemies will laugh at us or accuse us of not caring enough to
solve the problem ourselves. Moses and Paul learned that if their
faith was heart based faith, God would guard their hearts and minds as
they lived in the shadow of their God and Savior. There is no doubt
that things are chaotic these days, but may we, like them, focus on our
Savior and not our problems.
Philippians 4:6 Don’t
worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you
need, and thank him for all he has done. 7 Then you will experience
God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will
guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.
Roy Wisner
