The human idea is that each person is separate from the Spirit of God and that the "world's dogma" is god. Personal ideas about world ideas including religious doctrine are so strong that wars have risen up between countries and divisions have occurred in families and between friends over it. Are we separate from God? The Bible says that we were created in God's image and likeness. We live by the grace of God with every breath we take. Could it be that it is ego that considers itself as separate from the Creator?
Was Moses separate from God when when came to the Red Sea? How did the Red Sea part for Moses so that the Israelites could cross it on dry land? Was Jesus separate from God when he fed thousands of people or healed the sick? Was that magic? What happened when the walls of Jericho came tumbling down when Joshua had the Israelites march around it for seven days? Were these folks separate from their Creator when they did these things? Did they have some kind of special power? Did they perform miracles or did God?
Lets go back to the Israelites at the Red Sea for a minute. The Israelites were slaves in Egypt. Moses met with Pharaoh and then God sent multiple plagues to encourage Pharaoh to let the Israelites go. After a while Pharaoh reluctantly lets the Israelites go. But then after the Israelites leave, Pharaoh changes his mind. The Israelites are at the Red Sea and they don't know how they will cross the sea and survive. "Curses on you Moses, we should have stayed in Egypt" they say. So Moses prays to God, then raises his staff and the Red Sea parts. The Israelites can now cross the Red Sea on dry land. After the Israelites cross to the other side, Moses raises his staff again and the Red Sea crashes down on the Egyptians as they try to cross and the Egyptians that were chasing them drown. Whew!
Have you ever come to what felt like a Red Sea place in your life? Did you feel like there was no way out? Did you feel like there was no way back? Did you feel like the only way you could go was through? When it happened, did you feel like you had some kind of special power that nobody else had that could get you through? Did you get through? How did you do it? I know what I have done when I have come to many Red Sea places in my life; I let go and let God do what He does.
It is good news that a Red Sea place in our life can be a wonderful blessing, if we can let go. A Red Sea place in our life can help us see how to let go and let God's power take us through whatever Red Sea we are facing. God will part the waters of the Red Sea for us, if we can let go. But we have free will and God is very respectful of our free will. He won't part the Rea Sea for us unless we consciously or unconsciously give Him permission. The great thing is that we can learn to be more conscious.
Be still and know that I am God (Psalm 46:10). In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength (Isaiah 30:15). If we take the time to quiet the mind and go to the deep, still place at the center of our being we can know God. The reality is we are already connected to Him. We wouldn't be alive if we were not. It is He who sustains us. He gives us our every breath. All we need to is turn off the world and tune into the stillness of God at the center of our being.
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