- Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. Exodus 14:30 – Try to place yourself in the spot of one of the Israelites this day. All you’ve known your entire life is harsh slavery. You’ve seen firsthand the ten plagues God brought against your oppressors. You’ve been set free by the Lord, yet your march of freedom was cut short due to your captures chasing after you again. When all hope seemed lost, God does the unimaginable and parts the Red Sea for you to escape through. While your captures followed into the dry seabed, the Lord once and for all took care of those who were after you by closing the divided waters on them. Now, on the other side of the shore of the Red Sea, you stand there seeing the very slave master who was so cruel to you wash up on the shore dead. While a graphic image to imagine, what this picture would have meant for the Israelites was that their time of slavery was done. There captures were gone and the legacy of slavery that was all they had for generations was ended that day. Seeing those bodies on the shore would have been for them the same way we may see Jesus’ empty tomb. The slave master of our life, sin and death, that once held us captive is now gone and no more has authority over our life. We can look at the empty tomb as proof that God took care of our enemy and has set us free. As the Israelites were this day, you are today in Christ…free. Death has been defeated, sin has been forgiven, and freedom has been given to you all because of Jesus. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3158
- Exodus 14 Daily DEVO The Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward.” Exodus 14:15 – I love this. Here we have the Israelites trapped between the Red Sea and the oncoming army of the Egyptians. They begin crying out as if they were going to die and God says this verse. He looks and says why are you crying, keep moving forward. God had done so much for them already and was clearly still with them, yet they got caught up in the fear and lost focus. This passage is a great reminder for us as to the direction God wants us moving in, forward. Don’t be afraid of the sea in front of you or the enemy approaching. God isn’t afraid of it so we shouldn’t be either. Just keep moving forward. So what has God told you to do today? Let’s move forward in it. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 808
- “Is not this what we said to you in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” Exodus 14:12 – Understand who’s talking here, the people of Israel. God just did in front of their eyes miracle after miracle to rescue them from slavery. He was leading them to a land of promise. Yet in the moment when pressure came, when instead of being showered with gold by the Egyptians they are being pursued by the Egyptian army, we see a truth come out. We see they had no idea what freedom was. Which makes since because not a single person in that group ever existed before Israel was enslaved. It’s all they knew and they couldn’t grasp what could be better than slavery. Keep this story in mind when sharing the freedom that Jesus gives with people who know nothing but worldly sin. For them, just like the Egyptians, they see no reason to leave their slavery to sin. It’s all they know, they have no concept of the freedom that comes with Jesus. So don’t be surprised when someone who only knows sin chooses sin over Jesus. As Moses did with the people of Israel so we should do with the people in our story enslaved to sin. We stand up for their freedom, we show them a side of Jesus they’ve never seen before, and we lead them on a path to God that to them doesn’t makes sense. While they have no clue what freedom in Jesus looks like, you do. Show them what freedom looks like. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1897
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