He Parts Our Sea

God Doesn’t Necessarily Remove the Obstacle but Instead Makes a Way

Laura McDonell
2 min readJul 11, 2024
Photo by Michael Martinelli on Unsplash

We often pray for God to remove our difficulties, but sometimes He chooses to make a way through them instead. Just as He parted the Red Sea for the Israelites, God can create a path where there seems to be none.

“Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided” (Exodus 14:21).

This miraculous event reminds us that God’s solutions might not always involve removing our struggles but rather guiding us through them. As Corrie ten Boom once said, “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” Trust that He sees the way forward, even when we can’t, and His power can turn the impossible into the possible.

Keep faith, for the same God who parted the sea for the Israelites is with us today, making ways through our own Red Seas.

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Laura McDonell

I am a wife, mother, educator, writer, reader and marathon runner. I blog at https://findyourformula.blogspot.com/ Follow me on Twitter at @lmcdonell14