“YOU HAVE ONLY TO BE SILENT!”

 

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 WILL NEVER SEE AGAIN.

14 The LORD will fight for you, and “YOU HAVE ONLY TO BE SILENT."”

Most people have a built in mechanism to desire for doing what we can to “make things happen”, maybe because we think that we must be doing “things”, even when those “things” are wrong?  For me, doing something, even if it is wrong has almost always been my default!  The Children of Israel were experiencing FREEDOM for the first time in over 400 years and they were not always doing what GOD told them.  Apparently they weren’t expecting to be used by GOD for HIS GLORY.  They just wanted to experience HIS BLESSINGS while not being concerned with HIM being GLORIFIED???

In life, the tendency is to be so caught up in OUR success (and leisure) that we can’t SEE that we are only here for GOD‘S GLORY.  We do whatever is needed to make life easier for us and our family, but do we ever surrender to our MAKER to draw PRAISE, HONOR and GLORY to HIM?  When our EYES are OPENED to SEE our purpose, ONLY THEN can we begin to have the PEACE of JESUS (John 14:27)!  

JESUS recognized that HIS PURPOSE was to allow THE FATHER to be glorified, through HIS birth, through HIS life, through HIS sacrificial death, and GOD “rewarded” HIM by bringing HIM through the darkest valley WITH NO ASSISTANCE FROM HIM!  GOD raised JESUS from the grave and HE needed no assistance!  Now JESUS CREATED everything that was CREATED (Colossians 1:16), but HE allowed GOD to be GOD and yielded HIMSELF to the authority of the SPIRIT OF GOD!  

When our EYES are set upon THE LORD, the simple fact that the enemy is drawing near doesn’t cause us to FEAR GREATLY!  Maybe we have to experience the cloud of dust of the enemy drawing near to remind us that THE LORD is ABLE to deliver us?  Maybe one of these days Ecclesiastes 12:13 will be more than a memory verse for me!  “The end of the matter; all has been heard. FEAR GOD and keep HIS commandments, for THIS IS THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN”.  When we understand that JESUS lives within us, “YOU HAVE ONLY TO BE SILENT” becomes a lot easier because we are watching JESUS work all things for HIS GLORY (Romans 8:28)!!!