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Trouble At Sea
'Pharaoh's chariots and his army He has cast into the sea' Exodus 15:4
Pharaoh did not want to be seen as a weak king amongst the nations, folding like a house of cards under the pressure. For 400 years his predecessors had kept the Hebrew people as their pets.
OK, the swarm of locusts had devoured the crops. The Nile had turned blood red and then there was the increase in the firstborn death rate. But as Pharaoh's officials had pointed out, these things were mere coincidences, surely? Now he must enslave them once more - for his own dignity at least. But as the Israelites take one step at a time through the wall of sea, Pharaoh and his men storm into the passage like bounty hunters on a mission.
For generations later the Jews would remember how those deafening waves came rolling down on Pharaoh and his armies. And as they sing, 'Pharaoh's chariots and his army He cast into the sea' they would remind themselves of God intervening into their troubles. They would recall the dividing line between their past and their future.
God had saved them when all looked hopeless. The story reminds us that if God did it for them, He'll do it for us too. Whatever circumstance has you enslaved, God can break through. He will provide a passage through your sea of trouble and step by step you'll walk in faith into a new future.
Meanwhile your haunted past will be drowned for good in the tumbling waves.
written by Bob Gass
'Pharaoh's chariots and his army He has cast into the sea' Exodus 15:4
Pharaoh did not want to be seen as a weak king amongst the nations, folding like a house of cards under the pressure. For 400 years his predecessors had kept the Hebrew people as their pets.
OK, the swarm of locusts had devoured the crops. The Nile had turned blood red and then there was the increase in the firstborn death rate. But as Pharaoh's officials had pointed out, these things were mere coincidences, surely? Now he must enslave them once more - for his own dignity at least. But as the Israelites take one step at a time through the wall of sea, Pharaoh and his men storm into the passage like bounty hunters on a mission.
For generations later the Jews would remember how those deafening waves came rolling down on Pharaoh and his armies. And as they sing, 'Pharaoh's chariots and his army He cast into the sea' they would remind themselves of God intervening into their troubles. They would recall the dividing line between their past and their future.
God had saved them when all looked hopeless. The story reminds us that if God did it for them, He'll do it for us too. Whatever circumstance has you enslaved, God can break through. He will provide a passage through your sea of trouble and step by step you'll walk in faith into a new future.
Meanwhile your haunted past will be drowned for good in the tumbling waves.
written by Bob Gass
