"The LORD said to Moses, 'For what reason do you cry to me? Advise the individuals of Israel to go ahead.'" Exodus 14:15
At the point when I turned into a Christian, I knew there were profundities in my spirit that required mending. An observable hole isolated me from the announced opportunity found in Christ.
I could see this opportunity in others' carries on with yet felt lost in how to get it for myself. A delicate murmuring some place inside me stated, "There is more than this."
The present world pushes a philosophical guarantee that a "superior you" is one book away, one pill away or a couple of directing meetings away. Having discovered those vows to be in vain, I actually thought that it was hard to acknowledge all Jesus had to bringing to the table.
I felt like God needed me to begin discussing things I had kept fastidiously covered up — and I would not like to.
Breaking the sound wall of my past turned into the mountain go between who I had been and who God was driving me to be. My dissatisfaction with what I would not like to do, blended with the guarantee of opportunity, carried me to a spot where the desire to proceed started to exceed my dread of God's obscure.
I remained peacefully, hanging tight for an answer from the Lord that fit my models of an answer. I needed Him to guide me precisely.
Truth be told, I needed to have the option to accuse God if His arrangement turned out poorly.
In Exodus 14, the Israelites were forced into a tight spot, the wild and the Red Sea on three sides and Egypt in full interest on the fourth. God reacted to Moses' quiet requests in Exodus 14:15-16, "The LORD said to Moses, 'For what reason do you cry to me? Advise the individuals of Israel to go ahead. Lift up your staff, and loosen up your hand over the ocean and gap it, that the individuals of Israel may experience the ocean on dry ground'" (ESV).
Forward probably won't seem like a lot of an answer. I'm certain it didn't appear to be a response for the Israelites whose "forward" was the Red Sea. The meaning of "forward" as per Google is "toward the path that one is confronting or voyaging, at the front," and, "ahead in order to gain ground, toward a fruitful end."
Again and again, I had shouted out to God for an answer, and here it was with none of the properties I figured it would have. Basically go ahead — but some way or another, I knew precisely what He was letting me know.
At the point when God talks, the affirmation of His fact is communicated more unmistakably than the most itemized of bearings. His reactions infrequently come how we figure they will, and they seldom bode well.
Ordinarily, God offers responses that don't seem like answers. However, I believe that is on the grounds that He is noting a cry in our souls that even we don't comprehend. He sees what is on the opposite side of our Red Sea. He knows about our wild and the moving toward assault of our Egypt.
Some of the time His answer is, "The reason do you cry to Me? Go ahead."
Glorious Father, You are my forward, and in You, there is no dread. Remind me, Lord, in the midst of vulnerability, that while I may not comprehend the way I'm on, Your call is irreversible, and Your heading is perfect. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
TRUTH FOR TODAY
Philippians 3:14, "I strain to arrive at the finish of the race and get the prize for which God is ringing us to paradise in view of what Christ Jesus accomplished for us."
Ephesians 3:20, "Presently all magnificence to God, who is capable, through his strong force at work inside us, to achieve boundlessly more than we may ask or think."