In my Good News Bible Club, we've been studying the life of Moses. This week we talked about the crossing of the Red Sea. I always learn more than my little club members, but it is surprising what they pick up on their own. They always help me to remember that we have to come to God as a little child, with no pretenses and simply believe.

The lesson this week helped me remember that when things look bad, God is still in control.  The Israelites had no idea of what God had planned for them. All they could see was the Red Sea ahead of them and the army of Pharoah charging in behind them. Their response was "Why did you bring us out here to die?" 

Sometimes I'm that way about things. I just don't anticipate the goodness of God and how much He wants to show others that He is in control and knows how to take care of His own. One of the moms shared a story with me that shows how much God cares about us. Their family is moving out of state and is selling a car to a friend of theirs. However, the turn signals aren't working--therefore it's not really street legal. She was worrying about this, not wanting to sell her friend a problem car, yet needing to sell it in order to move, so she finally realized she needed to pray about it. "It seemed like such a stupid thing to pray about", she said, but she did.

Later, she was on the phone talking to the potential buyer, when the buyer asked if the emergency blinkers worked. She didn't know, so she went out to the car to check. When she turned them on, they made a funny sound, like they weren't working, then all of a sudden they started working. She immediately tried the turn signals, running all around the car in frantic histerics! They worked! She realized that no problem is too small to ask God for help. We have not, because we ask not.

God wants us to believe Him for the small problems in life, so that when the big problems come, we already know that He is trustworthy.  However, we're often like the Israelites who just saw the miracles of God in the 10 plagues, yet forgot already that He is quite able and ready to help us cross our Red Sea.

My dd's problems are like a Red Sea in that we don't know how God is going to work this out for her/our good. But "faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not yet seen." Hebrews 11:1 Each day, each problem, each disappointment, each trial is an opportunity to trust God. In faith, we can hope and believe that He is in control of our lives and those around us to bring about glory to Himself. What a lesson!