Wednesday... Is it wider, bigger, heavier than you can handle? Is it?

The Children of Israel were leaving the land of Egypt but they were being chased by a great army and they were headed to the Red Sea. Are you feeling what they were feeling? Is what is behind you and before you greater than you can handle?

I love the picture that the Psalmist paints in Psalm 114:3 (NLT). It says, "The Red Sea saw them coming and hurried out of their way! The water of the Jordan River turned away." That was truly a God moment. The army to their back, the Red Sea to the front. They were trapped but God parted the Red Sea and they walked across but then as the army tried to go across the water came together and they drowned. And also along the way to where God was leading them they had another river that they had to cross and it was parted too.

Now that is another time, another place and another people but it is the same God that we serve, that we follow and He still can do it and we need to be reminded over and over what He has done and can do and will do in our lives.

He goes on, verse 4 says, "The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs!"

The Psalmist then asks some good questions in verses 5 & 6, "What's wrong, Red Sea, that made you hurry out of their way? What happened, Jordan River, that you turned away? Why, mountains, did you skip like rams? Why, hills, like lambs?"

And he answers in verses 7 & 8, "Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob. He turned the rock into a pool of water; yes, a spring of water flowed from solid rock." And that same God, loves you and He knows what you need and He wants you to know that He can handle whatever you are facing today. No matter how wide, how big, how heavy it is.

I love verses 3 & 4, "The Red Sea saw them coming and hurried out of their way! The water of the Jordan River turned away." Remember, He is the same God. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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