"What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
"Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?" (Psalm 114: 5-6)
Five is the number of grace, and grace is the answer for why the sea fled and the Jordan was driven back.
These verses repeat what the Salvation of the Lord did for the Israelites, and phrases the events as questions which rail against the very hindrances which seemed, at least at the moment, to hold the Israelites in bondage to impossible, impassible circumstances.
So too everyone of us will look at the challenges which we had faced, and we laugh, even deride the very forces of the enemy which attempted to block our way into God's promises.
Your victory in Christ will be consummate and joyous, and many Scriptures speak to this relief:
"Hope in the LORD and keep his way. He will exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are destroyed, you will see it." (Psalm 37: 34)
"The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:" (Psalm 52: 6)
"The righteous see their ruin and rejoice; the innocent mock them, saying," (Job 22: 19)
The same grace of God which takes us from dead in our trespasses to alive and seated in heavenly places in Christ (Ephesians 2: 4-8), this same grace gives us the power to speak to every sea, every mountain, every hardship in our lives:
"Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it." (Zechariah 4: 7)
Remind yourself, too, when your troubles flee from before you. They do not run because of your strength, or your prestige, but because of Christ your righteousness (1 Corinthians 1: 30) and your hope of glory (Colossians 1: 27)
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