Moses is now a man of faith and declares that they should not be afraid for they will not see defeat, but deliverance from the Lord and the defeat of their enemies. The people thought that they had been brought to this place so that they would be destroyed. In fact it was their enemies who would be destroyed. We can face similar situations in life and we need to realise that we often misinterpret circumstances. We are very good at imagining the worst, but in Christ we should believe for the best.
Now see what their response was to be, they were to be still. One of the Psalms say "be still and know that I am God". When we are in situations that overwhelm us and that we cannot do anything about our natural reaction is to panic and either run or freeze. Instead we should carry on and trust in God. "The Lord will fight for you". There are things that we are called to do, and we must do these things. But there are things we cannot do, and sometimes it seems that because we cannot do them we will be defeated, as it seemed to the Israelites here.
God then tells them to move on. When we panic we stop doing the things that we do know how to do. We stop caring, giving, loving, praising, witnessing, encouraging etc. Not because we have become full of hate, but because we have become full of fear. If God has not told us to do something about a situation, and we are not able to do anything about it, then God does not expect us to do anything about it. He will take care of the matter. Our job is to trust Him and carry on doing the things that He has called us to do. fear tries to distract us from doing the work that God has given us to do.
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