the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Exodus 14:15-31
The people have concluded that they are unable to deliver themselves. Their position is desperate . . . now God can act. He says: "They are to go forward!" How, when the sea is in front of them can the LORD say: "Go forward"? But faith is obedient, and counts on God.
The angel of God comes with the pillar of cloud to place himself between the camp of Israel and that of the Egyptians. Now, what are the people afraid of? Remember that God will always interpose Himself as a screen between us and our difficulties. By day, by night, His care is operating to shield us from dangers which we often know nothing about – and that is true deliverance! Again, we find the phases of it in three verses of Psalms 136 : "He divided the Red Sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever: and made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever: but overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea: for his mercy endureth for ever (vv. 13-15)." Not only is death without power over believers, but it has become their ally, their armour and their fortress. By his death, Christ has destroyed "him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and delivered them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." (Hebrews 2:14-15).
