The ultimate purpose of God in the Israelites’ journey into the wilderness is to continuously build up and strengthen their faith through testing. How do they respond in this testing, and how does God deal with them?
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 […]