"And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground."
Exodus 14:22
The Bible is a Book of miracles! If you refuse to believe in the supernatural, you will soon lay the Scriptures aside.
One young man to whom I witnessed said, "I cannot accept Christ, for I have never seen Him. With me 'seeing is believing!'" Of course, he had not been enlightened by the Holy Spirit and so my well-intended testimony beat helplessly against the iron doors of his unbelief. Yet he did not realize with all of his intelligence (for he was an excellent scholar), that the statement he made was in itself sheer nonsense. Seeing is not believing at all. Seeing is knowing! You don't have to "believe" that which you can prove. Faith, on the other hand, is simply taking God at His Word even though you cannot verify what He says with your feeble, human senses.
The crossing of the Red Sea by Israel is one of the many miracles recorded in the Bible which has to be received by faith. A ten-year-old with a vivid imagination who had heard the story at Sunday school was asked what he had learned that day at church. "Well," he said, "our teacher told us about when God sent Moses behind the enemy lines to rescue the Israelites. When they came to the Red Sea, Moses called for the engineers to build a pontoon bridge. After they had all crossed they looked back and saw the Egyptian tanks coming. Moses radioed head-quarters to send bombers to blow up the bridge and save the Israelites." "Bobby," exclaimed his startled Mother, 'is that really the way your teacher told that story?" "Well, not exactly - but if I told it her way, you'd never believe it!" Yes, unbelief which is the root of all sin, stumbles at the miraculous, even as it stumbles at the offer of salvation vicariously provided by a virgin-born Mediator. Oh, for faith to simply take God at His Word!
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