God promises deliverance from all our trials. But having been raised in this zero-sum game, we can easily blame God for our trials and want to return to the bondage from which we have been delivered. But this is not a zero-sum game with God, and He always makes a way of escape for those who faithfully trust Him to keep His set-apart children moving forward. Here, as they neared the seventh day of their journey, memorialized in the seventh day of Unleavened Bread, Israel looked back at the might of the army of Pharaoh rather than forward, remembering what they were told to focus on: the hand of God that had done all to deliver them. Instead they allowed what was truly in their hearts to drag them back into the Satan-weakening of nations, the system of things, a zero-sum system.
