Have you ever been in a place where it felt like you had no good options? You could not go forward, you could not go backward, and everything around you seemed to be closing in. That is exactly where Israel finds themselves in this passage. God has brought them out of Egypt, but now they are standing near the Red Sea, and Pharaoh’s army is coming behind them.

But here is the good news: what looked like a trap was actually a setup. God had not lost control. God had not abandoned His people. God was positioning them for a miracle they could not produce on their own.