Exercise of Faith.

"Moses experienced it.

He had just freed the children of Israel.

He now led them on a seemingly suicidal course direct for the Red Sea. They Egyptian armies were in hot pursuit. The powers of reason no doubt cried out: "Veer to the left or to the right. To proceed straight ahead is a death trap- pinned against the wall of the Red Sea on the one side, the fast-approaching Egyptian army on the other." But Moses was steadfast in his course. March they would, directly toward the Red Sea. The Israelites, seeing their fate, fearfully cried out, "It had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness" (Exodus 14:12).



Moses was alone.



The power of reason and the power of the people combined against him with a raging fury. But deep within his soul was a power that far exceeded the powers known to man, a power that drove him on against the world, against all seeming odds, against all that was rational and reasonable in life. It was the power of faith. It proved to be his -and his people's- temporal and spiritual salvation.

Each of us faces the time when the powers of reason come in direct conflict with faith. All the logic, all the understanding of men may swell in unison, and there alone, in opposition, stands faith- unalterable, unassailable, unmovable- the anchor to our souls.

The tides of trial can come, the ocean waves of worldy reason pound against our souls, the current and popular trends tug with all their mighty sway, but there unmoved, unfazed, unharmed is the soul that is anchored by faith."

-Tad R. Callister, The Infinate Atonement




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