What does a song for God sound like? Moses gives us a stunning song in Exodus 15, have you read it through? Line by line? Incredible!
Exodus 13-16
Link to Online Bible to read Exodus 13-16 is here
Israel had been suffering for years. Praying for God to help them, change their life, and give them a miracle.
God sent Moses, and Aaron, to show them his salvation.
This salvation that since the days of Adam and Even, generations had been calling on the name of the Lord, longing for his salvation, now it was being demonstrated to a whole nation, a whole people.
How does God save?
There is a process.
Blood is involved. And the complete vanquishing of the enemy.
God wasn’t happy just to get the people free, no. He wanted to wipe out the enemy.
But what happens with us people? We’re not different to the Israelites.
We get one answer to prayer and already we’re complaining about the next thing. We can’t handle it. We forget to trust GOD who is leading us, and we look back to our situation.
The plague of going backwards
The scripture tells us that God led them a certain way because he knew, at the first sign of battle or war, they would want to go back to the life they knew in bondage. God, aren’t people still the same? We just can’t SEE!
By the time they come to the water, trapped on either side, so the Egyptian army has got them like sitting ducks, the people are wailing and blaming Moses. People are quick to complain, and blame leadership. The maturity hasn’t yet come to stand in faith, trusting God.
Even Moses was waiting for God to ‘break in’ – man, if it was the church today, he would have said ‘God has to bring Revival’. Doh.
What did God say?
YOU DO IT MOSES. (Remember, he had already told Moses you as god, and Aaron your prophet).
The opening of the Red Sea would not have happened in Moses did not have that faith to lift the rod.
Do we even know this God?
When Moses breaks out into song he says THE LORD HAS BECOME SALVATION TO ME!
The right kind of singing to God
That saving grace, that redemption. Jesus was on his way, not just for Israel, but for the whole world.
Moses sings ‘The Lord is a man of war, the Lord is his name’ and ‘in the greatness of thing excellency you have overthrown them’… the story is told in song.
‘Fear and dread shall fall upon them, by the greatness of thine arm thy shall be as still as a song…’
Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, grabs the instruments and echos the song, dancing and praising God for vanquishing the enemy.
From here God reveals another aspect of himself to the people;
I AM THE LORD THAT HEALETH THEE. (15:26)
Has God changed in the modern times?
Let’s continue to think about what we see here. Notice in verse 27 – they came to a place with the 12 wells and the 70 palm trees, by the waters.
Does that not remind you of anything?
Jesus had the 12 disciples/apostles and the 70 he sent out demonstrating the power of God.
Man, I love this bible. It’s a tapestry of the mind of God.
Salvation. Salvation. Salvation.
God is for people. He loves them so much. He always has, always will.
And he puts it in our hands – human beings – to do something about it. To trust him and do it with him.
Exodus 13-16 are brilliant parts of understanding this.
