Battlefield 2007- Day 0

Exo 14:15-16 The Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. And as for you, lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground.


Its Day zero of Battlefield 2007. Being in charge of logistics, we had to be at the campsite a day earlier to set up the logistics and take care of the equipment for the night.

We had to take turns in the night staying up to keep guard over the equipment.

To be truthful, that night, I was quite worried over the logistics for the camp as I was unsure whether all the equipment was throughly prepared for the camp and if I had left out anything. I decided to take a short break and left the pavilion to sit by the seaside.

I used to stay at East Coast so I had seen the sea many times. But that night, God reassured me as I took a break by the seaside.

' Son, do you remember Moses?' He split the Red Sea that was much bigger than the one that you see before you now. And all he had to do was to lift his staff and extend his hand over the sea. I did the difficult part. I parted the Red Sea.'

Right then, I knew that I could trust the Lord for everything in the camp when I remember the magnitude of the logistics that Moses had to deal with when he left Egypt.

Moses and the people were in the desert, but what was he going to do with them? They had to be fed, and feeding 2 to 3 million people requires a lot of food.

The people needed 2,000 tons -- four million pounds -- of food each day.

To bring that much food each day, would require three freight trains each a mile long!

In the desert they needed firewood to cook and keep warm. Each day this would take 4,000 tons -- eight million pounds -- of wood and a few more freight trains, each a mile long.

Of course, they needed water. If they only had enough to drink and wash a few dishes, it would take 11 million gallons each day, and a freight train with tank cars 1,800 miles long, just to bring water!

And then another thing: They had to get across the Red Sea in one night. If they went on a narrow path, double file, the line would be 800 miles long and would require 35 days and nights to get through.

So, there had to be an opening in the Red Sea, 3 miles long so that they could walk 5,000 abreast to get over in one night.

Each time they camped at the end of the day, they needed a campground two-thirds the size of the State of Rhode Island, about 750 square miles.

They journeyed in the desert forty years.

Do you think Moses worked all this out before he left Egypt?


The Lord is Jehovah Jireh. Our Great Provider. As he provides for his people that many years ago in the desert, what more will he provide for the camp.

What more will he provide for our lives!

As I stand in awe at the beach, I stand secured in his arms as I know that the Lord is the Great Provider of my life.

“If the Lord bid me fly, I should trust Him for the wings.” John Wesley