Bryant Wright, Founder

“As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified
and cried out to the Lord.” Exodus 14:10

WHEN FEAR TAKES OVER

Israel had just been set free from Egypt. After generations of slavery, you’d think the hardest part was behind them. But then they came to the Red Sea in front of them and Pharaoh’s army behind them and charging towards them. With nowhere to run, fear overcame them.

Scripture says they were “terrified.” They cried out to God, but almost immediately turned on Moses, saying “it would have been better to die as slaves than to perish in the desert.”

Fear does that to us. It rewrites our memory, distorts our perspective, and causes us to doubt the very God who has already shown up in powerful ways. Just days earlier, Israel had witnessed 10 great miracles including the Passover miracle– the lamb’s blood spread on the doors of the households of faith that spared them from death and broke Pharaoh’s grip. Yet now, staring at the next crisis, they had quickly forgotten all that.

Fear replaced their faith.

We do the same. When a relationship breaks down, a job falls through, or a diagnosis rocks our world, we tend to panic. Panic makes us believe the lie that we’re alone. Fear can make us forget the ways God has carried us in the past.

But fear is never the end of the story.

Even when we feel trapped, God is still present. He has a way of showing up in the impossible places. Israel couldn’t yet see the Red Sea parting, but God had it covered. Everyone is good for something, if only to serve as a bad example. Let’s learn from theirs and choose faith over fear.

DIG DEEPER
Read “Fear and Faith Cannot Coexist” also by Bryant