What kind of diet does God place the Israelites while in the wilderness and how does He help them to persevere in it?
One of the biggest problems of the human heart is that the more God blesses us with material things the more we mistakenly try — and fail — to find contentment in those things. This is the attitude of the Israelites during their journey into the wilderness.
Our reading of Exodus 14 should not be focused on the parting of the Red Sea, but rather anchored on the salvation of God through Jesus Christ.
From the beginning of the Exodus story, God’s main goal has been to continue to strengthen the faith of the Israelites in Him. God did it through promises, miracles and the display of power through the plagues. Now, God is training and growing the Israelites by rerouting them to protect and nurture their fragile faith […]
The Christian life can sometimes get messy. The anchor that keeps the Christian grounded and not sway to the extreme of pride or hopelessness are the facts that Christians, like the Israelites, have been chosen by God, consecrated to Him and have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ.