by Don Ruhl

Read Isaiah 50-52

A perpetual problem of Israel's in the Old Testament is failing to believe that God can help. Therefore, Israel often runs to other nations or other gods for help. This is what He says in response,

2b Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Indeed with My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; Their fish stink because there is no water, And die of thirst. (Isa. 50:2b, NKJV).

God creates the earth in the beginning, and covers it completely with water. By His word, the dry land appears, making that soil, which was under the sea, suddenly dry. Later, He floods the entire globe, then He issues the command, and dry land appears again. He brings Israel to the Red Sea, and guess what He does? Yes, He makes a dry path for the nation to walk across. Forty years later, Israel comes to the Jordan River and do you know what the Great God of Heaven does? He stops the water upstream, allowing Israel to walk across on dry ground. Elijah and Elisha centuries later come to the Jordan River, and again, the Magnificent Lord parts the waters, allowing those two prophets to walk across on dry ground. After God takes Elijah up into heaven, Elisha comes to the Jordan River again, and still another time, Yahweh God makes it possible for this man to walk on dry ground.

Oh, but all of a sudden, you and I have situations with which the Lord of all creation cannot help! Think about it today.