Summer At Sea: Week 4 Day 2

Exodus 14:1-4

Then the Lord said to Moses, 2 “Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp near Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. They are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal Zephon. 3 Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.’ 4 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them. But I will gain glory for myself through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.” So the Israelites did this.

God arranges everything so that He can establish His Glory, and we as modern Christians, have two thousand years of Biblical scholarship that point to this. Now imagine being an Israelite who knew God from stories passed down by family, having just escaped slavery, being told to “turn back” (Exodus 14:2). Having faith is something that requires trust in what you can’t see. Jesus tells us to have faith like little children. I think it is something to consider that when God tells us to “turn back” and do something that makes no sense, we should have that childlike faith that obeys our Father rather than questioning His reasoning. God had a purpose in the journey of the Israelites, and He has one in your journey too.