Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning.
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :The Song of Moses [2]
Bible Verse:Exodus 15:1, 13-21 (ESV)
"Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, . . .
“You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed;
you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.
The peoples have heard; they tremble;
pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.
Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed;
trembling seizes the leaders of Moab;
all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
Terror and dread fall upon them;
because of the greatness of your arm, they are still as a stone,
till your people, O Lord, pass by,
till the people pass by whom you have purchased.
You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain,
the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode,
the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.
The Lord will reign forever and ever.”
For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.
Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing. And Miriam sang to them:
“Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”
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Message:
Exodus is a popular, fascinating, and enduring Bible story, but often we do not fully understand why. If we read the second half of the Song of Moses and let it sink in a bit, the meaning of Exodus and the meaning of life begin to coalesce, for it is the story of every person seeking God, the overarching story of the Bible.
Song of Moses|Miriam Hebrew dancing
The dancing of the medieval ladies
from this Nuremberg Bible illustration (c. 1400)
is a bit more sedate than Tissot’s dancers, above.
God has seen fit, in his graciousness, to manifest Himself to us repeatedly throughout the ages; and the reason He comes is to lead us to the place where He lives. We are mired in slavery. And the power which binds us, call it mortality or Satan or what you will, is indeed powerful. It is immediate. And we are used to it and fear to abandon the “obvious” way to live, the path of least resistance, a life that often seems to consist largely of trying to crawl to the top of a cage of angry rats.
The song, note, reads “You have guided them to your holy abode,” even though the Hebrews have just begun their arduous journey. God has come to them, as Christ came to us, but — for reasons we cannot hope to understand — He does not just snap His fingers. If that was God’s will, life on earth would hardly need to exist. The Hebrews will have to struggle, suffer, and fight over the course of forty years even to begin their habitation of the Promised Land.
And in this time, they will have to have utter faith in God, and worship Him in faith, for their very lives depend on Him. Ours do also — but it is immediately visible to the Hebrews, who are stuck in the middle of a hostile desert without much food or water, surrounded by aggressive and pitiless armies, larger and stronger than they.
Once we realize that we are in the same position as the Hebrews, wisdom comes. We blind ourselves to our fragility; but like the Egyptians, we live solely by the direct intervention of God, on the edge of a vast cosmos that could annihilate us in an instant.
Jesus came to take us home, to His home. We live in faithfulness, relying on His promise; and Exodus gives us heart. For the journey of the Hebrews was long and arduous, but as He always does and always will, God kept His promise to them.
Meditation
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Prayer :
And now, as a little child, let me abide in you all this day, oh Christ, so that when you appear I may have confidence and not shrink from you in shame at your coming. For I know that you are righteous, and I am sure that I will be made righteous only by my life in you......Amen
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