Exodus 14:17b-18 "And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen. The Egyptians will know that I am theLord when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen." (Foolishly, the Egyptians supposed they had caught the Israelites in a trap with the Red Sea before them and Pharaoh and his army behind them and that they could accomplish their intended purposes of recapturing their slaves by rushing into the same path of bare sea floor the Israelites had taken a short time earlier. The Lord says He will engage the Egyptians in ways that neither they nor the Israelites could foresee and cause the Egyptian defeat to reveal yet again the power and victory of the Lord. Their destruction would be still one more testament to His people that God was their protector and their warrior. When defeat looks certain and imminent, when the Lord snatches victory out of the jaws of seeming certain defeat, He uses those impossible places to remind us still again that He already has the situation in hand, that He has already planned and executed the victory, and that He is Lord over the darkest circumstances, true testaments to, true reminders of, His glory and power. Not only was the Egyptian army bearing down against an unarmed and untrained people, the army was attacking with its best trained soldiers, its fastest horses, and its most powerful chariots, completely overpowering a trapped and helpless group of men surrounded by their women and children. We know from this example and others in our own lives that the Lord uses the difficult situations in our lives to remind us that He is in control, that He can be trusted, and that He will bring victory out of defeat so that we place our focus once again in Him as Lord.)
