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So when they had rowed about five and twenty or

 

thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea,

 

and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid

 

(John 6:19).

 

The Christian life is a call to "walk on the

 

water"; in other words, it’s a supernatural

 

life of endless possibilities, where you

 

recognize no obstacles or limitations. It’s a

 

life of advancement from glory to glory.

 

Imagine that God would ask Moses to tell

 

the children of Israel to "Go forward,"

 

despite being sandwiched in a precipice: the Red Sea in

 

front of them, and the hostile Egyptian army on their

 

trail. As far as God was concerned, the Sea wasn’t a

 

factor to them progressing to the Promised Land.

 

Eventually, God instructed Moses to stretch his hand

 

over the water and the Red Sea parted for the children

 

of Israel to walk through on dry ground.

 

In a similar account, Joshua, Moses’ successor, had to

 

pass through the River Jordan along with the children of

 

Israel. To surmount the obstacle posed by the river,

 

God instructed Joshua to tell the priests bearing the

 

ark of the Lord to step in the water ahead of the

 

others. The Bible lets us know that as soon as the

 

priests stepped in the water, the waters parted for

 

Joshua and the children of Israel to go through on dry

 

ground (Joshua 3:17).

 

Many years later, the Prophet Elijah and his servant

 

Elisha came to the same Jordan. This time, the prophet

 

simply cast his mantle on the water, and the river split

 

open for him and Elisha to go through. Afterwards,

 

Elisha, having witnessed the translation of Elijah, had to

 

go back through the same Jordan. The Bible says, "… he

 

took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote

 

the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah?

 

and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted

 

hither and thither: and Elisha went over" (2 Kings 2:14);

 

remarkable indeed!

 

Then came the Lord Jesus: On a certain night, He went

 

up the mountain to pray, and when He was done, His

 

disciples had already sailed out into the sea, and all the

 

boats were gone. He didn’t do as Moses, Joshua, Elijah

 

or Elisha did; He had a different mind-set! He refused

 

to recognize the water and walked right on top of it.

 

Extraordinary!

 

This is the Jesus whose icons we are. We have the same

 

life and nature with Him; as He is, so are we in this

 

world. He’s blazed the trail for us, showing us the more

 

excellent way to deal with the challenges of life. You

 

don’t need to "command the Red Sea" to open up; you

 

don’t need to "command the Jordan" to split wide open!

 

Like Jesus, refuse to recognize their presence, and

 

walk through: walk on the water! That’s the way out of

 

your troubles and adversities! Refuse to recognize

 

obstacles; walk on them, for they’re bread for you.