Take a Walk

By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.   Hebrews 11:29

We go through life worried how we can accomplish our goals or overcome adversities in life.  Yet, we are needful of the simplicity of walking as God leads.

 

God lead the children of Israel through a wilderness, from hopelessness the adversary, the slavery of Egypt.  It was God who provided the ability to reach the other side, the desires of their heart, the Promised Land. God lead them to the place where they would have fullness of life, where there is no choice but to turn utterly to Him, walking away form slavery given by the world around them.

On life’s journey God makes things happen.  Moses merely had to lift up a rod and the water of the Red Sea parted in order to walk into God’s promise.  Although they journeyed through a dry place, the desert, God meet their needs of daily bread.  How?  On the lifetime journey Israel, as you and I, were enabled by walking in faith of God.  By faith they went through their greatest barrier:  Israel didn't swim across, nor wade, nor endure quick sand, nor did they run in fear—by faith they walked, walked on dry ground as the adversary pursued them.  The adversary, faithless in the Lord, pursued God’s children across the sea, realizing too late, that only the faithful enter the promise.  Israel, you and I, are to walk through adversity in faith. 

We may be asked by God to lift up the rod, or simply gather our daily bread.  We live by exercising the rod of God’s empowerment, and by gathering the provision of daily bread.  Whatever God has told you to do, by rod or by gathering, nothing else will happen until you obediently do so—doing so in faith brings you into the promise.  

By faith God will walk you into the promise,

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