LIFT UP EYES TO HIM
Exodus 14

At every confronting challenge that is beyond our understanding or capacity, dealing with such challenge, requires help. How and where we seek help will define how we come out of any of our challenges. As a child of the Most High God our help is always there when we choose to take it up to Him. The psalmist testifies, “I will lift up my eyes to the hills—From whence comes my help? My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.” (Psalm 121:1-4) The psalmist must have been in a position or situation that called for help when he made his choice to look up to the hills for help. God is above all the hills and He is the loving Father who will not neglect any of His creation that takes time to call on Him. He does not sleep nor slumber; God was awake before the creation and He will be awake forever. Who do you look up to during your confronting challenges? The children of Israel were encountered with grave challenge when Pharaoh, his chariots, his horse men and his army overtook them as they were camping at the sea side. Under every challenge, fear will show just as it did for the children of Israel. However, it was in the capacity of the children of Israel to know how to respond. Exodus 14:10-12“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. 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? 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.’” The children of Israel saw wrongly when they lifted their eyes onto their grave challenge when they rather should have lifted up their eyes onto the Lord who had never failed them. In lifting their eyes to the challenge, they saw death and their thought was negative. By their negative seeing, they also confessed negatively. When you wrongly behold, negativity will hold you down and fear will ride over you. Lift your eyes to God! His testimonies are sure to make the wise simple. It is wisdom and simple deliverance when we look up to Him. Behold God and hold on in faith.

Prayer for today: Lord I thank You because You have always been on my side. Take all the glory.