Exodus 14 Devotional: We Are NEVER Alone

For awhile now I have been struggling with the feeling of aloneness. Following a tragic incident in life, fear filled my heart and God slowly began to seem distant. Through it all, I have hung on to Him, even on days when I’m discouraged. The other day was one of those days. Yet in the darkness of that day, the story of the Israelites’ escape from slavery in Egypt brought me so much hope and comfort. After years of captivity in slavery, Pharaoh finally agreed to let them go, but soon after they left he changed his mind. He got together the best of his best and pursued them. The Israelites heard the rumbling of the chariots behind them and they saw the sea blocking their way. This terrified them, causing them to cry out to Moses! He reassured them by reminding them of God’s promise that they would be delivered. As reassuring as that promise should have been, the Israelites still cried out because their circumstance had DOUBT written all over it. They allowed their situation to outweigh the promise of God so they were too blinded by what they could physically see, to see the miraculous. The Lord’s pillars of cloud and fires (both of which had always been there) moved into position behind God’s people. The pillar of cloud brought darkness to the Egyptians and light to the Israelites! Then God turned the sea into dry land, providing them a way, out of what they assumed was a situation with no positive outcome. God worked through the night. He worked throughout the darkness on behalf of His people. It reminded me that He is doing the same for me. In dark times we can make one or two choices. We can take things into our own hands, attempt to work through them with our own limited thinking...or we can look to God. “I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you” (Joshua 1:5) Mama said there’ll be days like this, but my Holy Father says that He’s got it! In Christ, Allie J.