Friday, February 27, 2015

No One Knew (2/27-28)

27-28 February 2015 - No One Knew – Fresh Manna by Dorothy Callies

Psalm 77:19 NLT, “Your road led through the sea, your pathway through the mighty waters—a pathway no one knew was there!”

What impressed me? “… a pathway no one knew was there!” In KJV quote, “… and thy footsteps are not known.” Let’s read Psalm 77:16 NLT, “When the Red Sea saw you, O God, its waters looked and trembled! The sea quaked to its very depths.”

Psalm 77:19 in KJV says, “Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.” Psalm 77:20 tells us in NLT, “You led your people along that road like a flock of sheep with Moses and Aaron as their shepherds.”

When God led Moses and His Israelite people to go to the Red Sea between two mountains, it was the right place that only God knew the special pathway for the people to cross over easily. God parted the Red Sea and they walked through on dry land. So God planned an unexpected route for His people. They never thought that there was a way out of troubles, but God did. Miriam led her people to dance and sang songs of victories what Almighty God had done.

A story was about Napoleon’s engineer, Albert Mathieu during 1802, he proposed the 31-mile passage beneath the English Channel allows travel by train each day between England and France. Nearly two centuries (192 years), people had sailed across the Channel until this surprising new way to go under the Tunnel was completed and opened on May 6, 1994. One could imagined people’s delight by taking a train which was much faster than sailing across the Channel between England and France.   

“A pathway no one knew was there.” What does it means for us? God can create roads where we see only obstacles (something that stands in the way). When the way ahead of us seems uncertain, what should we do? It is good to remember what God has done in the past. He specializes in pathways in any circumstance—pathways that point us to His love and power.

So doesn’t this makes you want to trust our loving God even more?

SONG: LET GO AND LET GOD
        Let go and let God have His wonderful way,
      Let go and let God have His way;
Your burdens will vanish,
      your night turn to day:
         Let go and let God have His way …
       (Inspiring Choruses

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