The bright pink tractor was spinning around and around, and smoke and steam surrounded it. Grasshoppers, flies, hail, frogs, and gnats came out of the smokestack! When the smoke and steam cleared away, M&M and Gummy Bear saw that they were beside a big body of water. It was too big to be a lake, but smaller than an ocean, they could just barely see the other side. Gummy Bear said, “I wonder where we are?” M&M answered, “There is a sign over there, let’s go and see what it says.” The sign said, ‘Welcome to the Red Sea!” Gummy Bear and M&M heard noises behind them, and they turned around to see what was making the noise. They were so surprised that they almost jumped over their bright pink tractor! There was a huge campground and it looked like there were millions of people camping there.
They got off the bright pink tractor and went over to see who all these people were. There was a celebration going on! The people were eating, singing, and talking about all the great things that God had done for them! M&M and Gummy Bear heard them talk about being slaves in the country of Egypt and how God had sent a man named Moses to tell Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to let the people go. Pharaoh had refused to let the people go, so God had sent 10 very bad plagues to the land of Egypt. The plagues included millions of grasshoppers, files, frogs, gnats, and hail! The last and the very worst plague was that all the first-born sons of the Egyptians had died in a single night. Even Pharaoh’s son had died! Pharaoh was so scared of God that he told Moses to take the slaves and get out of Egypt right away! The Egyptians were so scared of God, that they gave the slaves all their gold and jewelry and told them to get out of the country right away!
These people who were slaves were God’s people, the nation of Israel, and here they were camping by the Red Sea celebrating their freedom!
Gummy Bear could hardly believe that millions of people could have been slaves. He also saw gold, silver, and jewelry everywhere; these people were rich now!
In the middle of the celebration, one person happened to look back toward Egypt and he saw a huge cloud of dust coming toward them. Well, there is only one thing that can make a cloud of dust that big, it had to be a huge army with horses and chariots! Sure enough, in a few minutes they could see that the army of Egypt was coming after them. Pharaoh must have changed his mind, and it looked like in a few hours they would either be slaves again or be dead. The people of Israel did not have weapons, and it probably would not do any good to throw gold, silver, and jewelry at an attacking army! The people of Israel began to scream and cry, then they blamed Moses for bringing them out to the Red Sea because they thought they were going to die there.
Gummy Bear said, “Let’s get out of here!” So, he and M&M ran to the edge of the Red Sea, jumped in, and started swimming as fast as they could!
Meanwhile, Moses prayed to God, and God told Moses what to do! Moses told the people to not be afraid, but to stand still and watch what God was about to do! Moses stood up and picked up his walking stick. He held the stick out over the water, and right away an incredible wind came out of the east and piled up the water like a wall, and there was a path through the Red Sea!
Gummy Bear and M&M were swimming as fast as they could, when suddenly there was no water under them! They fell straight down, face first, into the mud on the bottom of the Red Sea! They stood up and tried to scrape the mud off, and then they saw all the water piled up like a wall! The wall of water was so high that it looked like the side of a huge building. It looked scary! Gummy Bear said, “Let’s get out of here before this wall of water falls down on us!” Gummy Bear and M&M began running back to the shore, and as they ran, they noticed that the east wind was quickly drying up the mud on the bottom of the Red Sea. By the time they got to shore, the path through the sea was completely dry!
When Moses saw that the mud was dried up, he had the people of Israel start walking across the Red Sea on that path! All night the people walked through the Red Sea. All night Gummy Bear and M&M sat on their bright pink tractor and watched the people cross the Red Sea. When the last of the people had begun to cross the Red Sea, M&M heard a noise behind them, and there was the army of Egypt! M&M wanted to get away from that Army, so he drove the bright pink tractor into the path through the Red Sea, but the army of Egypt was right behind them, and they were going as fast as the bright pink tractor could go!
The bright pink tractor and the army of Egypt had almost caught up to the long line of people crossing the Red Sea, when suddenly M&M said, “Gummy Bear, something has happened to our steering wheel, I cannot control the bright pink tractor! The bright pink tractor was swerving from side to side and M&M could not control it. Gummy Bear looked at the army of Egypt that was right behind them and saw that they were having the same problem. The wheels of the chariots kept going crooked and the chariots were running into each other and having huge accidents! Now they were not catching up to the people of Israel anymore, the people were getting farther and farther away, and the end of the line of people was almost across! Then M&M saw Moses up on the shore. Moses again held his stick out over the water, and then there was a terrifying noise as the walls of water on both sides of the path began to collapse. M&M shouted, “God is about to drown the army of Egypt, and we will drown too! We need to get out of here! M&M hit the bright red button just before the wall of water landed on the bright pink tractor.
There was a noise like a strong wind, the bright pink tractor began spinning in circles, smoke and steam surrounded them and …
What Gummy Bear, M&M and you can learn from this story:
The story of crossing the Red Sea is found in the Bible in Exodus 14.
God led the nation of Israel from slavery in Egypt to the land that God had promised them. In the same way God is leading believers through this difficult life to our eternal life with God in heaven.
In the Bible in John 14:1-3 Jesus says:
“Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in Me. There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with Me where I am.”
Many times, our life in this world seems like we are walking through a wilderness or desert. We do not see how we are going to make to through, but God knows the way! He has a wonderful plan for each of us, and if we trust Him and follow Him, He will bring us through this life in a way that will amaze us. When we reach the end of this life, it is truly wonderful!! Heaven is the forever home for believers and followers of Jesus.
In the Bible in Isaiah 43:19 God says:
For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.
When the people of Israel saw they Egyptians coming, they were afraid and terrified, but Moses told them to stand still and watch what God was about to do. When you and I face things in life that are terrifying, we also need to stand still and ask God to show us the way He will take us through it. Trust God! He knows what He is doing, He loves you, and will bring you safely to His heavenly home for eternity!