Come and See What God Has Done

"Come and see what God has done; He is awesome in His deeds toward the children of man" (Ps. 66:5). 

Standing before the Red Sea the children of Israel must have felt the enormity of a burden that overwhelmed their souls.  Three things would reinforce this: 1) The Egyptian army was bearing down on them, 2) They were incapable of overcoming the waters in front of them, 3) God was the one who had guided them there.  What hope would remain in their God if He was the one guiding them to that place where the reality of death would terrorize their hearts?  And this was their story.

Indeed, they should have every reason to be overwhelmed if they didn't know any better.  But they did know better, or at least they should have known better.  God told Moses just why He led them to the Red Sea: "I will harden Pharaoh's heart...and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD" (Ex. 14:4).  And so they watched, probably most of them, in disbelief as the waters parted and as they walked.  And they watched, as the Egyptians came, and then the waters came crashing back together to destroy their enemy. 

And too in this season, I wait...we wait.  God led us here to this place.  There is no yellow-brick road in front of me.  There is no way of ease and comfort in front of me, but God is leading amidst all of this.  He has brought us to this place where our reality appears impossibility, but instead of putting our heads down in defeat we rejoice that impossibility is that place to where God has guided those before us only to show it as a greater opportunity to glorify Himself even in our joy. And we believe that God will plant a church even through all of this and involve us in it.  And so our story, this story, is every bit another chapter in a greater story, GOD's story that will prove the love, power, and glory of God to do things so great whereby we too will say continually, "Come and see what GOD has done."