“FEAR NOT, STAND FIRM!”

 January 10, 2022 is on the top of this devotional on my computer    Sharing AGAIN today because it is speaking to this humble servant !!!

FEAR NOT, STAND FIRM!”

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.””

RECOGNIZE:: to accept or be aware that (something) IS TRUE or exists

Could it be that when we can’t SEE a way out of a situation that we find ourselves in, we are simply not looking in the proper place for it?  RECOGNIZING the HOLY SPIRIT when HE is leading you can alleviate FEAR from your response and allow you to STAND FIRM!  Rejecting, or just failing to SEE HIM will result in GREAT FEAR, causing life to be lived in defeatism.  For this unworthy vessel, RECOGNIZING that I have been delivered from “the evil one” FOR A PURPOSE is very humbling.  The CREATOR has a PLAN, not just for my life, but for HIS PURPOSE being fulfilled entirely!  

Moses had an encounter with THE ALMIGHTY on “Horeb, the mountain of YHWH” (Genesis 3:1)!  He KNEW YHWH, for THE ALMIGHTY had instructed Moses to get HIS Children delivered from the Pharaoh of Egypt, the most powerful man on earth at the present (Genesis 3:10).  On the other hand, the Children of Israel did not have the same familiarities in hearing from YHWH as Moses, possibly because they weren’t STILL enough to HEAR from THE CREATOR?  They could not RECOGNIZE GOD, because they weren’t looking, NOR EXPECTING HIM, to work on their behalf! 

Perhaps we might experience more frequent, abundant and DIVINE experiences in our lives IF we RECOGNIZED that ALMIGHTY GOD is over EVERYTHING that happens in “this world”(Isaiah 45:22-25)!  GOD provides every “breath” we breathe (Isaiah 42:5)!  Although we have to, BY GRACE, SEE that it ALL comes from HIM, we typically are moving TOO FAST to RECOGNIZE that HE controls everything, AND WE DON’T!!!  We simply need to “FEAR NOT, STAND FIRM” and let YHWH be GOD in our lives!!!

Typically, when we don’t RECOGNIZE the way forward in the situation we find ourselves in, we need to “FEAR NOT, STAND FIRM” and RECOGNIZE that YHWH is directing this show!  Like the Children of Israel in Exodus 14, the path forward might seem to be IMPOSSIBLE for man.  But just as it was when the Israelites were at the Red Sea, and just like when I was in the coma in 2007, I might need to “FEAR NOT, STAND FIRM” and let GOD perform HIS PLAN and let HIM get the GLORY!!!