RHAPSODY Wednesday, August14th A Call To “Walk On Water” Pastor Chris So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid (John 6:19). The Christian life is a call to “walk on the water”; in other words, it’s a supernatural life of endless possibilities, where you recognize no obstacles or limitations. It’s a life of advancement from glory to glory. Imagine that God would ask Moses to tell the children of Israel to “Go forward,” despite being sandwiched in a precipice: the Red Sea in front of them, and the hostile Egyptian army on their trail. As far as God was concerned, the Sea wasn’t a factor to them progressing to the Promised Land. Eventually, God instructed Moses to stretch his hand over the water and the Red Sea parted for the children of Israel to walk through on dry ground. In a similar account, Joshua, Moses’ successor, had to pass through the River Jordan along with the children of Israel. To surmount the obstacle posed by the river, God instructed Joshua to tell the priests bearing the ark of the Lord to step in the water ahead of the others. The Bible lets us know that as soon as the priests stepped in the water, the waters parted for Joshua and the children of Israel to go through on dry ground (Joshua 3:17). Many years later, the Prophet Elijah and his servant Elisha came to the same Jordan. This time, the prophet simply cast his mantle on the water, and the river split open for him and Elisha to go through. Afterwards, Elisha, having witnessed the translation of Elijah, had to go back through the same Jordan. The Bible says, “…he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over” (2 Kings 2:14); remarkable indeed!
Posted on: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 06:36:20 +0000
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