Himpossible - Exodus 17-20

Exodus 17:5-7 (ESV)

And the LORD said to Moses, “Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the LORD by saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”

We have a mindset of how things in life should work.   We use our logic to our advantage and find ways to maneuver through the terrain of life hoping to limit our loses and to find much gain.  However, when we come up against a problem we can’t physically solve, we are lost as to what to do.   Our logic seems to take over. When we can’t make sense of something we freeze or flight. 

This is the situation we find ourselves in the above passage.  The nation of Israel had been rescued out of Egypt.  This was done by some ten outlandish miracles by the hand of God through the rod of the Moses.   Our logic should be changed at this point.  Our human logic should be submissive to our spiritual logic that God can do anything on this planet.  He can even do things contrary to the laws He created for the planet.    Yet, here we find ourselves, in a place where human logic was taking over our faith in God’s logic.   God had brought them out of Egypt and now they had no water.  Human logic tells us to complain and be frightful.   But spiritual logic, based upon what we now know about the character of God, should take over.  But it does not.  So the nation complains toward Moses.   To solve this problem God does not simply allow Moses to strategically guide them to a lake.  Instead God makes a hard rock flow with a rapid of weather.  That is illogical based upon man’s logic.  But thinking about how God works that is perfectly logical.   This was God’s method to solve the thirst in their mouth and the doubt in their minds.   God is always stretching His people to learn more about Him and to take down their own human arguments and logic. 

2 Corinthians 10:4-6 (ESV)

For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.

God wants us to cast down anything that is in our logic and begin to replace it with His logic.  That is not illogical.   When being guided, directed and cared for by God, why would we continue to think like we naturally think?  Instead why don’t we think like God thinks and realize that whatever we come up against is possible in the mind and power of God.    It is not impossible, it is Himpossible.  God will continue to do miracle after miracle in their sight but the nation of Israel will continue to think in man’s weak logic about their condition and situation. It is only when, by faith, we understand our situations in the logic of God do we have a way out of the human logic box we put ourselves in.  

Isaiah 26:3 (ESV)

3 You keep him in perfect peace

whose mind is stayed on you,

because he trusts in you.