{"id":41085,"date":"2018-09-27T09:47:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T06:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=41085"},"modified":"2022-05-03T16:52:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T13:52:12","slug":"why-do-you-cry-out-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/why-do-you-cry-out-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do You Cry Out To Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":50634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[601,402],"acf":{"old_id":"41085","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":40625,"related_cahpter":"64","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"This is a story about not giving up and turning back, about moving forward, even when we are scared","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the most dramatic stories of the Bible involves the parting of the Red Sea. It is filled with lessons of leadership, tenacity and taking action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moses has led the Children of Israel out of slavery in Egypt. They have been journeying day and night when they finally reach a dead end: the shores of the Red Sea. The Israelites are tired but this is no time to rest because when they turn around, they see the most fearsome army of the time barreling down upon them! Pharaoh\u2019s army of horses and chariots is pursuing them in a single, united, terrifying force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Israelites scream at Moses: \u201cWere there no graves in Egypt? \u00a0Did you have to take us all the way out here to die?!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moses tries to reassure them, as any good leader would, yet he does so at first only by praying for God to intervene. God famously replies, \u201cWhy do you cry out to me?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God requires more than just words, more than prayers, more than fear-filled pleas. God demands of Moses, \u201cRaise up your staff, stretch out your arm over the sea, and split it!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Moses finally does, and the sea splits, allowing the Israelites to flee until the walls of the sea come crashing down on Pharaoh and his army.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How often have we come to a place along a new journey, only to run into a challenge that we hadn\u2019t expected and then doubt ourselves and wish that things could just go back to the way they were? <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How many times have we moved on, but then looked at the unknown future ahead of us with fear and longed for whatever enslaved us in the past, telling ourselves, \u201cWell it wasn\u2019t really that bad\u201d? <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And how many times have we asked, pleaded, prayed for a solution to our challenge \u2013 hoping that words would be enough? <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I can picture God chastising Moses (along with future Jewish leaders) who might wring their hands and beg for Divine intervention, doing nothing to take matters into their own hands: \u201cWhy do you call out to me? \u00a0Raise up your staff!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a story about not giving up and turning back. 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