Deep and wide

In Sunday school, we learned about Moses and God's people crossing the Red Sea. In my mind, a crowd of people split a lake and walked across. But Pharaoh's entire army of 6,000 chariots and unlimited foot soldiers ALL drowned, so it had to be much deeper and wider than I originally thought.

The Red Sea is about 1,400 miles long and, at its widest point, is 220 miles wide. It has a maximum depth of 7,250 feet in the central median trench and an average depth of 1,600 feet.

So the Israelites, about 2 million of them (there were 600,000 men), had to walk down and through walls of water 80 stories high (if you do the math)! In order to be able to move that many people through in one night, they probably didn't walk more than 25 miles.

I can't imagine the amount of trust you would have to have to be able to pull that off. Can we muster up the faith to allow God to speak to us in the next 2 1/2 years, so that we can determine who we are, what we have, and then...this is where we step off the cliff and start walking down into the sea on dry ground...do what matters?

Right now, we are primarily doing what matters to us, but it's a GIANT leap to move forward--first and foremost doing what matters to God and to our neighbors.