A Way is Made…

The book talks
about the story of Moses and the Red Sea. How He had answered God’s calling and
had led the People out of Egypt. I think, like I did for a moment, they thought
it would be this smooth getaway…
But there was a quote from the book that reminded me that the enemy would never
have that…

Picture this:

“As the tyrant
gazed over his wasted domain, he saw slave ghettos deserted like ghost towns.
His building projects were suspended, and the sounds of construction had
ceased. There was no pounding of hammers, scraping of rocks, or shouting of
foreman. The snap of the lash was hushed. Nor was a slave nearby to draw his
bath, oil his body, fetch his breakfast, or bow at his feet. Pharaoh was
plundered and humbled before his countrymen. His anger rose like mercury in a
thermometer.” -Robert J. Morgan

Can you imagine
that?

When we choose to
walk in the way God calls us to, all of Satan’s projects come to a grinding
halt. His work ends and he is forced to hear only silence. How infuriating that
must be…when your prized prisoners have gone…And you look foolish
before all of the citizens of your kingdom… So
like pharaoh, the tyrant goes after those who left. He pursues with chariots
and soldiers, causing the ground to shake beneath the wheels. His fury grows
with each passing mile.

When the Israelites saw the pharaoh they were afraid. I’m
pretty sure it would freak me out just a bit to see an entire army charging at
me. Especially looking around to see a tattered and worn out group of men women
and children weighed down with their belongings, livestock, etc. with nowhere
to run to save the sea… But
God is God and was not worried. He knew He had made a way for those He called
out into freedom. So He parted a sea for them. I think far too often I think
like the people did, fear coursing through me when it seems there is nowhere
else to go. I freak out and cry out to God, and He calmly parts and ocean…“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘why do you cry to me? Tell the
children of Israel to go forward.'” – Exodus 14:15

I love this verse because it’s almost like God said it like,
“seriously? You are freaking out right now?” Then it’s like we reply, “oh yeah… I
forgot you could do that…”

One thing He has been teaching me is that no matter what He
will make a way for those who are walking in freedom…Those who have chosen
freedom from the darkness and its tyrant ruler.

“The reality of
the Red Sea, in a word, is this: God will always make a way for His tired, yet
trusting, children, even if He must split the sea to do it.”-Robert j Morgan

No matter what the
enemy may try to do, God Loves us and the bible clearly says in its description
of Love that it ALWAYS protects. I always wondered why He didn’t already have
the sea parted when they arrived, but then I remembered times when I would not
have learned had everything been made clear to me right away. Sometimes it
takes the parting of a sea for me to remember Who I have chosen to follow.
Usually it is also those moments that cause me to fall to my knees and praise
Him for without Him it would be impossible.

“I know He only
tries me to increase my faith, and that is all in love. Well, if He is
glorified, I am content.” –j Hudson Taylor

And this trip so
far has reminded me of what a cruel ruler of Darkness Satan is. The bondage he
has the people in… our teams have been called out to set them
free…not in, by, or through our power, but in by
and through Christ’s alone. And as we walk in the freedom of the Spirit into
the darkness, more and more of the enemy’s lands are growing silent and more
and more cries of joy and celebration ring out in God’s Kingdom… so take heart for I have seen and continue to see that:

“The Lord will
make a way for you where no foot has been before. That which like a sea
threatens to drown you, shall be a highway for your escape.” Charles H. Spurgeon

                                        

The Kingdom is here…And our King Quickly Approaches…