My Hubby messaged me this morning with a prayer request. I can’t go into details right now, but there’s trouble brewing around him today. Focused on my personal theme of “intentional” for this year, I made a few deliberate choices. I was intentional to not panic and intentionally sought peace instead.
After receiving the text message, I took time to do my daily Bible study. The last few days have included either chapters or large portions of scripture to read. Today devotional and scripture was brief. The reading said to reflect and memorize the following one verse:
The Lord Himself will fight for you. Just stay calm. Exodus 14:14 (NLT)
God will fight the battle for you. And you? Keep your mouths shut. (MSG)
What?! Seriously?!
Seriously!!
This portion of Exodus tells of the Israelites’ journey from Egypt to Canaan. The Egyptian army has just caught up to them, trapping between the army and the Red Sea. But God has a plan! And it doesn’t involve any interaction between both groups. Rather, the Israelites are instructed to march forward on the path God is about to open before them and to leave the army up to Him. And boy, does He handle the Egyptian army.
I don’t have any answers. I have no idea what will happen around my Hubby today. What I do know is Who is in control and has a plan. Better than anything I can dream up in my finite, limited thinking.
My goal to live intentionally? It’s in progress.