BY DAWN REED

The Israelites were in a bad spot. Water was on one side; Pharoah’s chariots were on the other. They were terrified and cried out to the LORD. Then in an emotional moment, the Israelites blamed Moses for their predicament. (Why do we always have to blame someone?) “What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?” they complained. “It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!” Exodus 14 gives all the details. 

Pharoah had taken 600 of Egypt’s best chariots, along with the other chariots, to chase them down. The odds were not in the Israelites’ favor. When the chips are down, the giants are big and the water is deep, that’s just when God does His best work.

He did the wildest thing that day. And that’s saying something. The Israelites had already seen the Nile turn to blood, frogs, gnats and flies invade a land, plus boils, darkness and locusts. They had miraculously been delivered from their bondage in Egypt. But up against the water, those wonders were forgotten.