‘Raise your
rod…!’, God told Moses on that day,
This, a seed of
power He’d soon display.
Moses did
exactly what He was told.
Re. the rest, a
bill of goods we’ve been sold.
In the great movie, The Ten Commandments,
There are
pivotal missing components,
About how
pharaoh attacked his freed slaves.
This warps
understandings of how God saves.
Egypt’s army
found their slaves and Moses,
Backed up
against the Red Sea, defenseless.
So to overtake
the slaves, there was no rush:
‘Let’s
rest. Tomorrow their rebellion we’ll crush!’
Between the two
camps, God dispatched a cloud.
One side gave
Light, the other, darkness to shroud.
In Light, Moses
‘planted’ the seed that God had given.
O’er the Red
Sea, he raised his rod amid confusion.
T’was night,
not day, that God prepared their escape route,
Just when,
before their enemy, they had freaked out.
By morning,
they were all safe and dry on the other side.
They saw the
army’s dead bodies washed up
by waves of
tide.
Friend, there’s
a lesson in this story that’s easily missed.
I’ll tell you
what I see so you can quickly get the gist.
When your lying
enemy thinks he’s worn you out,
God sends Light
to show His escape routes ‘in the night’.
It’s the quiet
of night when He can get through
to your spirit,
So you can see
and hear Him say,
‘This is The
Way; walk in it.’
The Light
you’ll see is His spiritual insight,
So from
spiritual enemies, you can take your flight.
But if it’s for
you to stay and fight, you’ll be the victor,
And perceive
your enemy ‘washed up’ on victory’s shore.
But walking in
The Spirit, which is God’s preferred way,
You can receive
His ‘nighttime Light’ ...even in the day.
