“FEAR NOT!”

Exodus 14:10-14                                 (ESV)

“10 When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they feared greatly. And the people of Israel cried out to the LORD.

11 They said to Moses, "Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt?

12 Is not this what we said to you in Egypt: 'Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians'? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness."

13 And Moses said to the people, “"FEAR NOT”, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.

14 The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be silent."

Moses was in the process of leading the Children of Israel FROM captivity and into the Promised Land.  The Israelites had just spent hundreds of years being enslaved to the Egyptians, and ALMIGHTY GOD delivered them.  Now they were begging to be back in slavery because ultimately they didn’t want to WALK BY FAITH!!!

Who do you know that would CHOOSE to be slave?  Who would yield to the temptation to being in bondage versus freedom?   Yet every time I knowingly and willingly surrender to temptation, I am CHOOSING to be a slave to the enemy.  This quote is at the top of my PRAYER LIST:  Only by choosing NOT TO BE SLAVES to our own reasonings and emotions can we win the battle for our minds and begin hearing the voice of GOD within us.  

Romans 14:23b says “....FOR WHATEVER DOES NOT PROCEED FROM FAITH IS SIN." And John 15:15 says “You did not CHOOSE ME, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the FATHER in MY name, HE may give it to you.”

We can “choose” to walk by sight and do only what we can see as the best way forward, or we can “be CHOSEN” to WALK BY FAITH and reap the rewards that comes only from trusting in HIM!  Sometimes I am “chosen” to WAIT ON THE LORD?   Maybe HE has limited my choices, but HE is doing it, not for my health, wealth and prosperity, but for HIS Glory!!  We can’t expect GOD to bless us if we are bound and determined to walk by sight.   On the other hand, we won’t be able to process all of HIS Blessings if we WALK BY FAITH!   

Then why do I cry and moan when things become a little uncomfortable?  GOD ALMIGHTY could be getting ready to part my Red Sea!  Then again, HE might be allowing me to drown for HIS Glory?!?  Whatever HIS Plan is there is no room for me to be scared!  “FEAR NOT” is a most definitely a fruit of WALKING BY FAITH!