My Red Sea Road

 For a few weeks now this feeling has come and gone. It goes as quickly as it arrives. 

For several days, it felt as though we were staring at a wall. Between kids being sick keeping us cooped up for several days, to the cooler air settling in, bringing with it more cloudy days, life just felt a little...stalled.

Finally, the word came. Talking to a friend and the word was released. A tsunami.

This wall of water that was just waiting to crash in and overtake. Ominous, dark, intimidating.

Going through my work the next day and I got a quick flash. A picture that only held in my mind for but a second. It is now written on my heart permanently. 

Myself and others, my people, I believe, huddled down struggling against a wall of water. My mind was drawn to the ground beneath us. Much to my astonishment it was still solid. More than that, though. The ground was dry. We were safely standing.

It was then it felt like the camera spun to the left. Rather than only seeing uncertainty, an unknown wall of dark, and fear, there was a path like the one we were standing on. One end, the dark gloomy, unstable land from which we're leaving. The other end a bright, sun, joyful land.

A heart pulled to read a very familiar passage that many of us are familiar with. The one in which Moses follows God's instructions to lead the Israelites across the red sea. Conquering enemies once and for all.

A song began to radiate in the heart. Another very familiar message. Its a song that, honestly I wasn't super fond of while it was "popular" but its obvious my heart took hold and buried the words to allow them to begin to blossom now.

When we can't, see the way
He will part the waves
And we'll never walk alone
Down a red sea road
     -Red Sea Road by Ellie Holcomb

While I know what lies behind, what lies ahead is unknown.

Now, there's a few questions hanging over me.

Will I continue taking steps forward toward the new land? Choosing to trust that God's got this. He knows the way better than anyone else. That God is faithful now just as He always has been before.

Upon what will my focus rest? The walls threatening to crash in on either side or the dry path ahead of me? Trusting that God goes before me and will not leave me now?

Until I make it to the other side, I will challenge myself with these questions. I will also hold tight to these instructions.