Exodus 14
It's only the beginning of the Israelites 40 year journey through the wilderness. Thousands and thousands of people runnig from the Egyptians, but in order to enter the wilderness they have to cross a sea! They certainly don't have the faith it would take to walk on water as they are already considering returning home to Egypt - to go back into the bondage of slavery. They do not trust God and they surely don't trust this Moses. God is going to have to figure out a way to get them all across. And he does... He saves his people by parting the waters so they can walk on dry land and drowning the Egyptians who pursue them.
The Lord shows his hand, the people cross to freedom safely. Will they remember this? Will they really remember it or just tell the story? How will they fare in the wilderness? Will they constantly complain? Or will they be thankful that they are no longer slaves making bricks without straw; having their firstborn sons killed at the Pharoah's whim?
What is it you do when the Lord leads you in places that you've never been before? When you face crossing seas and entering a wilderness that you do not know? Do you shrink back in fear? Or do you step out in faith ready to be led from bondage to the freedom God desires for his children?
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