While having devotions in the book of Exodus today, I began to wonder how big the Red Sea was that God separated for his children? So I looked up its’ size and found it to be approximately 1,400 miles long, with a surface area of roughly 169,100 square miles. Its maximum width is about 220.6 miles and it reaches a maximum depth of 9,970 feet at the central Suakin Trough.
Then I thought, “There were two seas mentioned in the Bible that God overpowered for his children.” Later in the day I was relating these thoughts to two others, wishing to encourage them in our days of many trials and tribulations. One of them reminded us that God also divided the Jordan River for both Elijah and Elisha.
Now we were really finding ourselves rather humbled for allowing the trials of life to get us down, but also lifted up as the conversation continued. Two of us almost declared at the same time that the ground was even dry for the people to walk on! It would normally have been saturated to a great depth, leaving it impossible to walk over, but it was dry!
Many times we feel tossed about on the sea of life, whether by financial difficulties, physical trials, personal problems, or any other storms of life. Life can present deep seas and wide rivers, but let us encourage you to trust in the God of all power. He is the God who cares for his children, the God who hears and answers prayer, the God who made the world and the entire universe, the God who overpowers deep seas and wide rivers, even providing dry ground!
