Imagine the scene when the Israelites left Egypt with their hands held high. Imagine the excitement! Young and old together, singing and shouting for joy, dancing and praising God. Delivered from their misery and slavery, they began their march to the Promised Land.

But within a week, all seemed lost.
Their destruction seemed assured: Either they would drown in the sea or be massacred by Egyptian soldiers. There was no escape. With no solution in sight, was there even one Israelite who thought, It’s not so bad. God can clear a path for us through the sea, or maybe let fire come down from heaven to devour the Egyptians. After all it is not as if we have not seen these kinds of miracles before? That is not a natural reaction.

What about us? When we face uncertain difficulties, do we lack faith and limit God like our forebears did?

God deliberately trapped the Israelites between the mountains, the sea and the Egyptian army! He diverted their path from the most direct route to leave them in no doubt as to their need for His miraculous intervention.

“So Moses said to the people, ‘This is a day to remember forever—the day you left Egypt, the place of your slavery. Today the Lord has brought you out by the power of his mighty hand …’”(Exodus 13:3; New Living Translation). God wants us to remember that it was His great power that freed us from spiritual Egypt.

That is a lesson we must teach our children. “And in the future, your children will ask you, ‘What does all this mean?’ Then you will tell them, ‘With the power of his mighty hand, the LORD brought us out of Egypt, the place of our slavery’” (verse 14; NLT).

God performed many miracles to make Israel’s escape possible. The people could not leave Egypt on their own volition. Neither can we. We were brought out of spiritual Egypt by the mighty hand of God! We were slaves to sin, and there was nothing we could have done to escape that slavery.

Always remember that we were unable to get out of Egypt on our own, and that we are unable to stay out of Egypt on our own.

It took powerful miracles to loosen the Egyptians’ stranglehold on the Israelites. “Likewise it is humanly impossible for us to escape Satan’s influence. But with God, all things are possible. God delivered the Israelites by the mighty miracle of parting the sea. He led the Israelites on dry ground across the seabed to the opposite shore, then drowned the Egyptian army behind them. God alone can deliver us from Satan and sin (Philippians 2:13; Galatians 2:20)” (Royal Vision, March-April 2020).

Sure, the Israelites did have a role in the escape: walking. Without God, however, they would have been slaughtered. We tend to rely on ourselves, forget to involve God, or only turn to Him when we see no other alternative. If we rely on ourselves and don’t acknowledge God, we will lose our battles.

When God is first in our lives, our initial reaction will be to involve Him in everything. To overcome and grow, even in the smallest areas in our lives, we need God’s miracles. It is only through God’s great power that we too can leave Egypt, and stay out.