As we look ahead into the new year of 2026, it can be with a measure of fear. The children of Israel, no doubt, faced the same as before them loomed the impossibility of the Red Sea. And yet, they passed through "as by dry land." It was nothing to them, because God opened the way, by faith. And so it is with us. The command is the same, "Speak unto the children of Israel that they GO FORWARD." This meditation reads some excerpts from Jonathan Edwards who laid down the blueprint for the burden he carried in his day, as we do in our day. May God give us the faith to go forward in prayer, and not be discouraged.