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OBEDIENCE

we all go through situations in our lives where we are left in situations where we just so desperately want to do a certain thing but God says something that’s just idiotic or foolish to our little brains that God has given us. Let me explain this with an example again from Moses’ life.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the sons of Israel to go forward. “As for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, and the sons of Israel shall go through the midst of the sea on dry land.                             Exodus 14:15-16

In this passage, we see God talking in a very different way. He literally is asking moses “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the sons of Israel to go forward.”. well  the people of israel is in the shore line and they have no where to go and God is saying”GO FORWARD”. God then continues to say to Moses “DIVIDE THE SEA”. There are two things that God is asking moses to do here

1.go forward
2.stretch your hand and divide the sea

and both of these at that moment are technically or logically speaking “IMPOSSIBLE” to do. It is this kind of situation that I was talking about in the beginning of this blog. Often times we do not understand the true essence of obedience when it comes to God. With God it is not about what you achieve out of the act of obedience but rather about the willingness to do the act itself. The example of Moses will makes it much easier to understand.

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, 
Exodus 14:21
As we discussed earlier, God asked Moses to divide the sea. We know that no matter what, he can never divide the sea but he still obeyed God and  did what he could and that was stretching his hand over the sea. When Moses did his ‘stretching’ part as God commanded, God did the ‘dividing’ part and the people of Israel went through the dry land to the other side of the sea. 
When it comes to God it is better to just blindly obey God irrespective of whether it is possible or not. Just do your part and He will take care of the rest.why I say it is better to do it this way is because; if not , then God will force you to do so and that will not be good. 

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