(13) Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. [14] The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.” Exodus 14:13-14

What was Moses answering? He was responding to the fear in verses 10-12.
[10] As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord. [11] They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? [12] Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”

Can you imagine the fear they must have felt? They were slaves who had escaped, plundering their neighbors on the way out. And now they were caught, as far as they could see, by the human resources they had available to them. They would be slaughtered, and the few survivors would be put right back to work.

They had forgotten that they were following God’s instructions, who was carrying out His promise to deliver them. They couldn’t see God’s deliverance. All they could see were the hurdles. And God told them to move on. Onto the path He created. What a leap!

Have you ever been in a place where you couldn’t see how God could possibly keep His promises to you?

Let me tell you about one of mine. My husband and I had graduated from college, gotten married, and started in on full time jobs to pay back our school loans, a requirement to join a mission agency. We rented a cheap old house, my hubby chopped wood to keep our utility bills low, we went without cell phones, a computer, internet, satellite, and a new anything. We splurged on a fast food dinner about once every two months, and ate a lot of hamburger helper.

We were making double and triple payments on our loans, and would be ready to apply to an agency in about 4 years. We were content.

Until we weren’t. An urgency to get going filled our hearts, and independently, the hearts of my mother-in-law and our missions pastor. But what were we supposed to do? We were putting every dollar we could to the only hurdle we had.

Our missions pastor came up with a plan. We would write a letter explaining what we knew was God’s plan and include a copy of our budget. We sent it to everyone who knew what we felt God was calling us to.

We called Mission Aviation Fellowship, the agency we would apply to, and asked them for the deadline to apply to their next recruitment class. They asked how much debt we still had, and told us they couldn’t hold a spot for us. We understood. This was, after all, an impossible task for just a few months.

The letters were mailed, and the money poured in! Just enough! No one actually believed it, least of all us, but God had done it! Our church opened an account with the money, which was held in trust for us until we were accepted by MAF. And we called to tell them we were all set. We had to tell them a couple of times, and then they confirmed it with our church.

All of a sudden, instead of working for two more years, we were driving from Indiana to the west coast. And we were still trying to wrap our brains around it.

The years that followed were challenging, to say the least, but we never once doubted God’s call. He had made a way where there was no way.

How has God provided for you when you couldn’t provide what you needed?