YOU CAN PASS THIS TEST-1

It is important to understand that God knows your ability, and will never allow any test to come to you beyond what he has enabled you to overcome. In the Old Testament book of Exodus, we read a very interesting scripture and receive a very tremendous revelation from it. In Exodus, the account of how that the children of Israel left Egypt, is clearly told and their journey through the wilderness and to the promise land. Then in Exodus chapter 13, and verse 17 we read,

17 “ And it came to pass that when pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the philistines, although that was near; for God said, lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and return to Egypt: 18 but God led the people about, through the way of the, wilderness of the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt”

At this point in time, the children of Israel were just coming out of the land of bondage, and were not yet trained for war. They had also not seen the mighty deliverance of God that can take place in a battle field. God knew all these things, and he knew that their enemies, the philistines in particular, were great fighters. And God did not want his people to turn back because of war, so he decided to avoid that route which was shorter, so that by the time they ,would have passed through a certain distance through this longer route, they would have become ready. We can clearly see that in the process of time, their numbers increased, they fought wars, they saw God deliver them in the Red Sea, when the army of Egypt came against them and they were able to withstand many Nations.