Red Sea Rules

And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.”
EXODUS 14:25

It is comforting to know that the God who led you into the place of difficulty is the same one who ultimately will lead you out. Moses would have agreed with that statement, or at least in retrospect. On the day that he had mountains on one side, the Red Sea  in another, and the army of Egypt behind him, he might not have been so sure. Robert J. Morgan, in his book, The Red Sea Rules," list 10 rules that help you get through a tough place. Today we'll focus on the first four:
Rule 1: Realize that God means for you to be where you are. When difficulty strikes, we often think that God has abandoned us, forgotten us, or forsaken us, or else the problem would not be confronting us. God however had led Israel into a cul-de-sac of trouble.
Rule 2. Be more concerned for God's glory than for your relief. Believing that all sickness was the result of sin, the Pharisees once confronted Jesus over the issue of a man who had been born blind. "Who sinned? This man or his parents?" they asked  Jesus. "Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life" (John 9:3).
Rule 3: Acknowledge  your enemy, but keep your eyes on the Lord. With Egypt's army behind them, there was nowhere to go nowhere, that is until God made a way through the Red Sea. "But that can't happen,"  you think. But God doesn't know that! Nothing is impossible with Him.
Rule 4: Pray Is that enough? Sometimes that's all you can do. Until you have prayed, you have not done your part.