"Why are you crying out to Me?"

You are finally walking away from suffering. 

You're marching forward full of relief.  

The past is in the past and you are ready to embrace a land flowing with milk, honey and freedom from oppression.  

In the distance you hear the pounding of hooves and the shouts of war. You turn, suddenly blinded by sunlight reflecting off hundreds of chariots pursuing you and swiftly gaining. Despair envelopes you.  You are not free.  Maybe you never were free. You can't go back, you just can't.  Every negative, depressing, desparing thought wreaks havoc in your mind and you cry out in agony.

"The Lord will fight for you while you keep silent..."

Just like that, we forget God is our Warrior.

We forget the Lord is our strength, our song, and our salvation.

We forget the God who is almighty, all powerful and greater than anything ever is the one and only God who just delivered us from slavery by His own hand.

We forget we did absolutly NOTHING to free ourselves.  

The Isrealites didn't have to plague the Egyptians, they didn't have to win debates with Pharoah, they didn't have to call on other countries, they didn't have to riot in the streets and they certainly didn't have to fight with weapons.

"...Why are you crying out to Me?"

Why did the Isrealites cry out to God when He had just freed them 

AND promised them freedom?

Why do we keep crying out instead of being silent and watching Him work?

What if we stopped crying out and trusted?

"Tell the sons of Isreal to go forward."

We would go forward!! 

If we stopped crying out, we would go forward!  

We would go forward to minister to the orphans and widows.  

We would go forward to bring the good news to lost and lonely people.  

We would go forward to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, invite in the stranger, clothe the naked, look after the sick and visit the prisoner! 

THEN,

we would watch God work! 

We would see His mighty hand at work making a way for us to go forward. 

As the Isrealites watched God make a way through a great body of water, 

we would watch God make a way for us to go forward.  

We would see His mighty hand at work and we would be able to say, 

"The Lord is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation, This is my God, and 
I will praise Him."  

References from Exodus 14 and Matthew 25:35