About “Fixes” (Are You in a Fix?)

“Then the Egyptians chased after them (the Israelites) with all the horses and chariots of Pharoah, his horsemen and his army, and they overtook them camping by the sea.” (Exodus 14:9)

A “fix.”

Simply put, it’s a place where we find ourselves trapped. (Been there? Done that?) Think back to the fixes you’ve found yourself in. (Are you in one now?)

In Exodus 14 God directs His people into a “fix” (a corner). He’s freed them from Egypt. (That’s great.) But now God places them in a trap. (So what’s up with that? Doesn’t God know what He’s doing?)

Of course, we know how the story turns out. (Btw, all stories turn out like that if you love Jesus. See Romans 8:28.)

And let me just give you a few more thoughts about “fixes.” Sometimes God puts us in fix because He’s got a higher purpose behind the scenes and we need to be in a fix so He can accomplish what He wants to accomplish and He couldn’t accomplish it unless we were in a fix. Make sense? (Read it again to let it sink in.)

Think again back to the fixes you’ve found yourself in. Evaluate: What was God’s part in it? (I happen to be in a fix right now. It’s one of the tightest traps I’ve ever found myself in in my life, quite frankly. Btw, America is in quite a fix right now, too.)

And sometimes we’re put in fixes just because we’re serving and obeying God and living our lives surrendered to Him. (Read that again, too, to let it sink in.) We are required to just do what God tells us to do and not worry about the rest. (Like tithing.) If we end up in a “fix” we end up in a “fix.”

Some people are out of the will of God. They won’t submit to the “fixes” God has planned to put them in. (Read that again to let it sink in. I know I’ve been saying it a lot.)

One last thing about “fixes” to not forget: God will make a way where there seems to be no way.

“The sons of Israel went through the midst of the [Red Sea] on the dry land, and the waters were like a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.” (Exodus 14:22)

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