God
Will Make A Way
For several weeks, we are highlighting stories from the newly
published Foursquare devotional called, “From The Field.” In celebration of 75 years of missions work
in our denomination, missionaries both past and present have recounted great
works of God through the years.
John & Shirley Walker, former
missionaries to Central America, share how God is able to take the impossible
circumstances and make them possible:
“One of these occasions was when
we drove with a couple of our Bible Institute students to a place of ministry
in San Jose, Costa Rica. To get
there, we had to go down a steep hill, cross over a bridge, and then come up
the hill on the other side of the bridge in order to get to the church. This was the only way to get there; there was
no other way. It was pouring rain and
the windshield wipers were going fast as they could, but it was still very hard
to see.”
We came to the bridge area and all we
could see was a lot of debris, but
we paid no attention and went over to the other side. When
we arrived at the church and ran in through the rain, people began to ask us
how we got there. Several people seemed
very concerned, so I asked them why they were upset. They told us that the bridge was gone –
completely washed away – and that the floodwaters were so high that it was
impossible to cross. We walked to the bridge and to our amazement, it was not
there!
I have often thought about this, and I
know that God either rebuilt the bridge for us to go across and then destroyed
it again, or that angels simply picked up our Jeep and carried us over. Either way, we were filled with gratitude to
God. God made a way when it seemed there
was no other way.”
There are few places in the Bible that
remind us of this truth more than Moses and the Red Sea.
As the Israelites were fresh from their escape from Egypt, Pharaoh and
his soldiers were in hot pursuit with intentions of fully reclaiming them to
slavery or fully unleashing mass genocide on God’s people. Whatever the case, Israel was defenseless and
had little hope of maintaining their new found freedom.
Rather than helping their exodus
through an unveiling of the heavenly hosts or at the least the
ultimate Catch 22. The Egyptians
behind them and an enormous body of water before them. They were in an impossible situation and
exactly where God wanted them to be.
Most of us have found ourselves in
that place. Not necessarily in a literal
sense. Most people don’t even live by a Sea and
furthermore have few armies converging on them.
But the truth is nonetheless a reality.
Our impossibilities pinch us in the realm of finances, relationships,
careers dilemmas, and parenting challenges.
In every sense, they are bridges that are impossible to cross.
But, greater than anything we will
accomplish on our own strength, are those moments in life where you are fully
surrendered to God’s power. It’s then, like with the Walkers and like
with Moses and the Israelites, God will make a way, where there seems to be no
way.
Terry Risser
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