August 25, 2010 – Exodus 14

Here we see the completion of God’s work with the Egyptians.  With all the plagues and this scene we have seen God not only trying to separate Israel from Egypt, but show Egypt’s weakness as compared to the Lord.  Still we know that Israel will test Him and be sent to forty years in the dessert, but I guess you could say this ends the Egyptian part of the lesson.  So looking back, what did we learn.  God’s plan is not a simple or quick one.  We saw that with the fact that all the plagues seemed to lead to the next and they had to go in the order they did in order to get the result that God wanted.  We saw that the Israelites would prefer slavery to the unknown.  That one we can really see in our lives I think.  I heard it best explained as when we are living sinful lives in this sinful world it is like driving with flat tires.  But since everyone is driving with flat tires and we have done it for so long, we don’t know to live life any different.  But there is a different way.  Putting air in our tires is like living with God in our lives.  Most the world just doesn’t want to put air in their tires because it is unknown and different for them.  They would rather live in slavery than in freedom with God.