Mar 4th

Exodus 15     Job 33     Luke 18     (Click on the Reference to go to the passage)

Most of Exodus 15 is a song of praise to God after He has rescued the people of Israel from Egypt, miraculously enabling them to cross the Red Sea. Perhaps the most striking thing about the song is that it is all about God. We sometimes sing words like, ‘Its all about you, Jesus’. But is this more how we would like it to be than how it is? Exodus 15:1-18 really is all about God.

Notice also that Israel’s praise is based on what God has done in rescuing them. Unlike the philosophers, Israel is less interested in what God is like in some abstract sense than how he can be known by what he has done. In fact passing through the Red Sea is the event Israel looks back to again and again in remembering God's rescue. When they find themselves in Exile in Babylon many years later they again look for God to rescue them in the way he rescued them from Egypt.

For thought:

·         In my worship can I really say, ‘Its all about you, Jesus’?

·         In what way do we need rescue?

(Christ Church lay preacher)