Is it time we finally label ‘Moses and the red sea’ a fairy tale?

Sometimes I’m baffled at how Christians-myself included-respond to biblical stories.
Like how we read the story of Moses splitting the sea with a straight face.

LOL.

Seriously. I’m laughing out loud at how absurd that it.
Not the story. Our response.

So dude sticks his staff in the water and the SEA SPLITS IN HALF. And we just nod, say amen and go home?

Are you kidding me?...

Someone ought to get up on the pew and scream at the top of their lungs every time that story is read. Either that or scribble ‘fairy tale’ across that part of your bible.

Seriously people. God split the sea in half. You can’t read that and simply nod in agreement. Disbelief is a more logical response.

To be fair, I think a big reason why we aren’t moved by a story like this is because our minds shrink its magnitude. When I heard this story as a kid, I pictured a little creek washed over to the right and left while the Israelites long jumped their way across without getting their pants wet.

I’m sure you had a more vivid imagination but if you don’t mind, I’d like to retell a very familiar story with an incredible observation made by a former quartermaster general of the US army. He said...

1. When they crossed the red sea if the opening was small and only two could walk side by side then the line would have stretched 800 miles and it would have taken them 35 days and nights to have crossed. 

So, the opening would have to have been at least three miles wide so that 5,000 could have walked side by side and crossed over in one day and night.

Please re-read that. Incredible huh? Here’s some more of what he said about the Israelites after they crossed the red sea...

2.  They would need 1,500 tons of food each day.  That would be equal to two freight trains, each a mile long, filled with food.

3. They would have needed 4,000 tons of wood each day for cooking.  That is two more freight trains each one mile long.
They would have needed 11,000,000 gallons of water every day.  That would mean a freight train of tanker cars stretching 1,800 miles long.

4. Every time they camped at the end of a day the campground would have been two-thirds the size of Rhode Island.  They would have needed 750 square miles.

How much does God weigh?

Deuteronomy 2:7-
'...He has watched over your journey through this vast desert. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything'

He split the sea and sustained an entire nation in the desert for 40 years.
Incredible.
Unstoppable God writing an unstoppable story.
Are you in?

My heart is literally freaking out right now. Here’s what I want you to do. It’ll take 2 minutes.

I know you know the story and have seen the movie. But sit back for a second and rethink all his. Read the stats. Look at the picture above. Imagine you were that little person in the red. The tiny dot. Its there. Look closely.

Now Imagine seeing the sea split. Imagine how magnificent this must have been to see God do that AND provide 1,500 tons of food, 4,000 tons of wood and 11,000,000 gallons of water every single day for 40 years.

Soak it in, then tell me what comes to your mind. Anything. Disbelief? Fear? Awe? Peace? Less worry? Faith? Anything [except nod in agreement]

Go.