Ready to take some risks, question the unbelievable, talk to God in the deep places and cherish and embrace the experience of walking into the Promised Land, as difficult as it may be?

Doesn’t sound very enticing does it?

There will always be Red Seas to approach in life.

The real questions are:

• Why must we be prepared for them?
• What’s the proper response as we endure them?
• Why must we keep perspective during them?
• Why would it benefit us to know of God’s intention and His character
~in the midst of our most trying and challenging times in life?

I haven’t always wanted to be a social worker. It seemed as if I often gravitated into people’s lives because they had problems. I guess my mother helped me see it was my “strength” to help others solve problems somewhere around eleventh grade. Well… I seem to gravitate towards trouble so much… I decided to make a career of it! And now I am deciding to BLOG about it! (smile) Join me as I explore ‘trouble’, pain and hardship and offer a few perhaps rather interesting points of view as it may relate to some of your personal life experiences.

As we weekly explore the ups and downs of our ‘everyday struggles’ of life, we must notice and reflect that there may be a few nearly disastrous ones. Despite the hardship, good things really do come out of life struggle, life challenge and even life changes. Despite all the pain – we can keep the proper perspective, have a pretty decent response, discuss with other and with God how it may benefit our character transform our lives and cause us to live a little lighter.

So I offer you this: What if your ‘Red Sea’ offered you the chance to enter into a greater and more glorious plan God has for your life? What if God only parts the Seas of our lives so we can walk through them and gather up enough courage to face the unbelievable – and take a chance at retrieving everything we lost in Egypt? (Our past lives carry lots of pain from our struggles and can cause us to hesitate ~ when trouble begins again.) What if God wanted to work a miracle to rid you of the the perspective, the responses, and show you just how true and committed He can be in the deepest places of your life ~ when you least expect Him to come through?

The funny thing about Red Sea Situations is that you often don’t realize you are going through them, until you are deep into the Sea, and you feel as if your whole life is being swallowed up into the depths of a huge abyss.

Ponder this thought: Red Sea Situations can happen maybe every day, every week, maybe even every year of our lives. It’s a choice as to whether you will be ready to embrace them, or decide they are way too heavy to bear and it’s simply not worth bearing to reach any ‘promises’ on the other side.

I posted this picture of my father fishing on a dock, because it is a leisure he enjoys regularly now that the Red Seas of his life have parted. It’s also sort of a tribute to the (one of) the individuals in my life ~who held the key to my destiny and helped me to recapture the strength and sustainability of my Red Sea experience. That’s more than a man just sitting there fishing. (That’s a miracle.) There are pleasures and treasures found in the deep seas of life. I pray this journey into this ‘Red Sea experience’ will bless your life and offer you a different angle of what lies ahead in a promising journey toward your future.

Take a quick moment to consider what ‘good fruit‘ your Red Sea Situation(s) may have produced in you?

Please share if you have some FRUIT to share…