Recount The Wonders

2022. The year God parted seas for my family and me. We could hear Pharaoh’s army on one side of us and the roar of the ocean on the other.

But God. That's all I can say.

Not only did God miraculously pull me from the slimy pit, but He didn't wait around to start using me. Genuine miracles where I couldn't help but laugh as He just kept pouring out.

I was already forever grateful for the miracles He did in rescuing my family and me from peril, but the humbling thought that he would start using my wife and me as His instruments was just mind blowing!

Spring went into the summer and the miracles kept coming!

Then the summer ended.

Things went silent.

To this day, I find myself back struggling to find my footing in a prayer time.

I don't speak about God as much to friends and family as I did in that whirlwind season.

Doubts start creeping back in. Questions rolling around in my head "What did I do wrong?"

"Where did you go?"

I am now in the same position the Israelites were in. I find myself standing on the other side of the Red sea and have had a week straight of horrible tasting manna.

But I remember the words of David in the Psalms "I have seen you in the Temple and I have beheld your power".

I know what you've done! Let us become monument builders. Pile up the stones that remind us what God did. 

I write notes everywhere. I refuse to forget.

I cannot rely on the miracles of the spring and summer because God is doing something new. Yet the miracles are flotation devices that carry us in times of silence.

When both sides of the sea slam back together into one body of water, the season of trusting begins.   

God doesn't change.

His word is speaking constantly to us.

Everything we experience builds our character and grows our faith. Even the times of silence.

So let us enjoy a gumbo of manna and recount the wonders God has done and hope for the wonders He will do again!

Jayar