If you have ever walked through mud, you know how difficult it can be. (Actually, very few of us have ever walked through mud, we usually trudge through it.) Now, imagine the children of Israel stepping foot onto the floor of the Red Sea – imagine how deep and heavy that mud would have been. How slippery any rocks on the floor would have been. These things would have been true had God not dried it. Instead, God’s people crossed the Red Sea on dry ground, surely making their travel much easier and faster as the Egyptians closed in hot pursuit.

• What miracles of God have strengthened and deepened your faith the most? Why?