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Deliverance

 

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Deliverance

There's a wall in front of you. Behind you is a past you are running from. You feel trapped. No way out. This is just the sort of situation in which God does some of his finest work.

You need only ask the Israelites. Behind them was Pharaoh's army and back-breaking slavery. Ahead of them was life in the land of promise. In between stood a wall of water.

Your wall may be a fear of failure. Or maybe it's a lack of confidence. Or it could merely be too many problems that have piled up. So you stopped. And you aren't sure if there is a way over, around, or under this imposing impediment. At this point many people panic.

Moses could have looked at the enemy's army. He could have looked at the ungrateful people he led. He could have looked at the wall of water spread out before him and given up.

Instead, he looked to God. And God opened an unlikely route through the wall of water. The very name of the book, "Exodus," is a compound Greek word meaning "the way out." And in case you might have missed it, the way out was not a better job, a different spouse, or a victim mentality. No, the way out is God.

Next time you find yourself up against a wall try looking to him.

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