This Time, You Might Have to Get Your Feet Wet

God instructed Moses and told him exactly how God was going to move on his behalf.  Lift up your rod, stretch out your hand over the sea to divide it, and the children of Israel will go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.  I can still see that scene from the Prince of Egypt.  The Israelites walked through a sea on dry ground.  The water parted before they even stepped out. 

Now turn to Joshua 3:6-8.

Then Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant and cross over before the people.”

So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.

⁷ And the Lord said to Joshua, “This day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. ⁸ You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you have come to the edge of the water of the Jordan, you shall stand in the Jordan.’”