Go Forward
“The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.” The LORD said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward.” Exodus 14:14-15
After the Israelites finally left Egypt, they soon got into a desperate situation with the Red Sea before them and Pharaoh’s chariots advancing upon them from behind.
They were overwhelmed with feat and they cried out to Moses, saying, “It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”
Having just miraculously escaped from the miserable life of slavery, and only beginning their new life of freedom, the children of Israel were faced with the most severe threat to their existence. This test of their faith, to trust God for their very survival, followed only a few days after their astounding deliverance. Could God had really brought them out just to have them recaptured and returned to the slave camps or be slaughtered by Pharaoh’s army?
We, who have been delivered from the life of slavery to sin, may also quickly be faced with overwhelming trials, and we may cry out desperately to God, asking, “Is this what you delivered me for?” The enemy knows he lost hold on us, and will often make furious attempts to reclaim or even destroy us especially when he has just suffered a crushing defeat
Now the Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward.”
You were not delivered to be ensnared, recaptured or slaughtered by the evil one!
Go forward, press on! The trial, obstacle, or threat against you, is proof of your deliverance and will turn into a devastating defeat for the one who is set against you. What Israel faced at the Red Sea, what appeared to be their death sentence, suddenly and irrevocably became God’s instrument to crush their enemies totally! God is telling you too, “go forward!’ Just do it. The Lord will give you victory!