Exodus 14:21 English Standard Version (ESV) Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

We were speaking yesterday about seeing our way out of this present pandemic of evil and hitting the reset button. During this time we want to hear and believe God in order to walk in His will as He moves against the tide of evil in our nation. Allow me to grasp an example of an old escape plan in order to point out some not so obvious points.

Here in Exodus 14:21 Moses stretches forth his hands in obedience to God’s command. This is something we should aspire to do. Moses stands on the edge of the sea. Moses did not step down into the sea until God was through preparing the way. This went on all night. In the flesh Moses must have been getting tired. Holding our arms outstretched all night long is a super human feat.

Our flesh will be on edge waiting on the Lord to complete His work. We do not have the strength to maintain the attitude of worship that long. We need His strength to succeed. We need to pray for that strength. We need God to be super human in us in order not to jump off the edge and into the middle of the fray.

I watched a video of men and women breaking into a Wells Fargo bank. There were those who were actively doing damage and then there were eager participants waiting for the windows to be removed so that they could enter. Then there were those at the back that held back from participating. Those people were not actively participating. They were on the edge, perhaps even on edge.

Those are the ones that can be reached. Those are the ones that might hear another voice, a voice of reason.

“God loves you.”

Isaiah 42:16 English Standard Version (ESV) And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them.

Before I quoted Isaiah 42:16-18 yesterday I asked “what are we to do about all this”. Allow me to point out here that God said He would take care of it. While it is an encouragement that God cares enough to straighten things out, it also begs us not to interfere. How we want things fixed might not be in God’s will. Have we aligned our will with His?

If we are to be His ministers of reconciliation as He has called us to be in 2 Corinthians 5:18, we must acknowledge God’s plan to use us to enact His will. In order to do that we need to be clear on our role in His plan for the lost. It has not change since day one but much has transpired since Christ ascended to the throne. Thousands of years of intentional interference by Satan have left so many stop and starts in finding God’s will, that it is reasonable to ask if we might be at the point of yet another reset.

We have seen many calls for revival in the United States and for a time those revivals may have added to the numbers of souls saved but they do not last. At this time in history there are more people proclaiming God’s goodness in the middle of this pandemic of evil. Social media is alive with alternatives to the violence being unleashed. Those cried only reach a few people of a like mind. Those words don’t pierce the dark veil of violence being unleashed.

The reset button I seek lies within myself. I have allowed evil to distract me from God’s perfect will and it is time for me to hit that reset button and find God’s will in all this.