Today's Passage: Exodus 14-15
The scene of the Israelites crossing the Red Sea has always been fascinating to me. The way that Moses describes that they crossed on DRY land with WALLS of water on either side of them, it's something that I can't really imagine without thinking of it as a cartoon.
Anyone who knows me pretty well, knows that I have a fear of open water (the ocean). There is just something about there being enough water below me to consume a boat that just creeps me out. Photos of sunken ships like the Titanic give me chills. So to imagine walls of water in excess of 800 feet on either side of me is unsettling. Then to add in the fact that before God parted the water through Moses there were 1200 plus Egyptian soldiers barreling toward the Israelites position and they had no other place to go. Talk about being between a rock and a hard place.
I can't even imagine what the Israelites were thinking when Moses raised his hands as an east wind started to blow and the waters parted. How long did it take for the shock to wear off before they started crossing? Were there people that said "there is no way I'm walking through that"? Or did everyone just say "that was cool... lets get out of here"?
The crazier thing to me is that God had all of that planned, and He made sure that Moses jotted it down so that you and I could read it today. Do you ever sit back and think how completely awesome God is? This story does it to me every time.
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