Shut Up and Get To Work!

Exodus 14:15-16 LITV
(15) And Jehovah said to Moses, Why do you cry to Me? Speak to the sons of Israel, and let them pull up stakes.
(16) And you, raise your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it so that the sons of Israel may go in the midst of the sea on dry ground.

TheIsraelites were pinned down between the Red Sea and Pharaoh's army. Time was running out. Moses was talking big talk, but the people were afraid. Then an odd thing happens. God tells Moses to quit talking and get to work.

"Raise your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it..." Well, duh. What else was Moses going to do?

The observation I gained from this passage is that whenever we hear God speaking to us, He is usually telling us to take some authority that we didn't previously think we had. It's almost as if following Him restores much of what we gave up in the garden. In Eden, man had dominion over the earth. After Eden, man struggled to make a living from the earth. But following God, man once again is expected to start exercising dominion.