“THEY FEARED GREATLY!”

 Exodus 14:10                     (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”.

How often do we find ourselves in a situation similar to what the Children of Israel found themselves in at the Red Sea?  ALMIGHTY GOD had just placed ten separate plagues on the Egyptians, then had caused the Egyptians to surrender a huge bounty to the Children of Israel, then caused the Egyptians to tell them in Exodus 12:31-32 “Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have said. Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and BLESS ME ALSO!”  The Egyptians were MOVED BY GOD to not only release the Israelites, but to also give them earthly wealth!  

Do we fail to recognize that the same GOD WHO released the Israelites from the mightiest army known to man at the time is still on HIS THRONE?  HE can do whatever HE pleases, even deliver a person from a seventeen day coma with no physical disabilities!  HE isn’t limited by what we SEE as situations too difficult to be overcome, nor by medical conditions with no way through.  GOD DOES AS HE PLEASES (Psalms 115:3), whatever and whenever is required of HIM!

The Children of Israel weren’t SURE that GOD was going to deliver them , even though HE had caused their enemy to release them from their control.  The Scripture above states that “THEY FEARED GREATLY” when THEIR EYES became fixed on the threat of the Egyptians.  

FATHER IN HEAVEN, cause my EYES to be fixed upon YOU and YOUR BLESSINGS and NOT on the threats of the enemy.  Whatever the enemy places in my path, help me to KNOW that YOU are with me and never allow “THEY FEARED GREATLY” to enter into my heart and mind!!!