FAITH CAPSULE: See the promise of God to trust and hope for the deliverance of God.

Exodus 14

A miracle brought the Israelites out of the bondage of over four hundred years, but they could not see the positive in the word of God to see them through to Promised Land. 
In the journey of the Israelites, Pharaoh approached the Israelites with a plan to return them to where the Lord God delivered them. 
Exodus 14:10 records, “And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord.”  
The Israelites could not see the positive in the promise of the word of God.
A failure not to see the promise of God will crowd not to trust and hope in God.
The Israelites saw the attempt of the Egyptians to return them to the bondage of Egypt.
Without a doubt, whatever anyone sees is going to have a direct effect on what they think or say.
What are you seeing in your challenge? 
The Israelites saw fear, and as a result, they confessed negatively.
The Bible records their response, “Then they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? 12 Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” (Exodus 14:11-12) 
The Israelites could not see right, saw wrong, confessing wrongly to end wrongly, not to claim the promise of God.
Why is it so difficult to see that God alone is in control?
The Israelites took away their eyes from God, doubted the word of God in their mind, and could not rest on the promise of God.
Are you one like the Israelites not keeping to the promise in the word of God?
Watch out, not beholding what is possible to hold one down from moving in the promise of God.
Moses realized the effect of negative confession when he said to the Israelites: “Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.” (Exodus 14:13) 
A failure of the clarity of sight prompts misjudgment that leads to a state of confusion, leads to complaints, and rebellion will gain ground in the journey of life.
Just as Moses lived through his journey meditating day and night, wise one should give to meditating on the word of God, day and night. Meditating day and night is communicating with God, the evidence of knowing that God does not leave nor forsake one. 
With meditation, there will be clarity of sight. 
See in the promised word of God that does not fail.

Prayer for today: Ask to see, to gain clarity in the promise of God.