1.2.14 When You Pass Through The Waters

 1.2.14
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you and through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned or scorched, nor will the flame kindle upon you. Isaiah 43:2

Water, deep waters with undercurrents and strong waves can overwhelm us.  Fire can consume us.  Both water and fire are used by God to purify and refine.  Both water and fire are also used to destroy and burn up.   God used both the beneficial properties  and the destructive forces of fire and water to accomplish His sovereign will.

I know people who are going through some really tough things right now.  Several are going through chemo, some are sitting with loved ones who are close to leaving this earth, some are facing big decisions about job and career changes.

These people and myself know that we are going through something right now, and I thank God they/I know that God is with us.

Some of us are approaching the waters of the Red Sea with an army of angry soldiers right behind us, with trouble chasing us, with fiery arrows whizzing by.  We are looking at that vast expanse of water and thinking it's about to over, BUT GOD, God is there, making a way for us to walk through.  And when we walk through the fire, God is there.  We will come out not even smelling like smoke, like those three boys in the furnace.  There may be days when we wonder if that right foot will follow the left, but we need only to look over to the other side and know that "this too shall pass" that we, by the grace of God will have victory.  It may not look  like we want it to look, but it will be God's absolute best for us.

Still others are facing the destructive properties of fire and water,they don't even know that they are heading for it.  We need to pray for them, for spiritual eyes to see, for hears to hear and eyes to see what God wants to do for them.  I do not even have the words to describe the gratitude towards our living God!  I will praise Him in the storm, I will praise in the good and in the bad, for He is still God!! 2/365