He Has Thrown The Rider Into the Sea!
I’ve began 2018 by following a plan to read the Bible through chronologically. I’ve always wanted to do this, but never got around to it. This year, I felt this incredible LONGING to do it.
That’s always how God works, isn’t it? When it’s time, He leaves no doubt!
And I have to say that I was not expecting for these first books of the Old Testament to speak so LOUDLY over my heart.
- I have learned so much about the character of God.
- Knowing Him better has drawn me closer to Him.
- I am reminded (because I knew this in the back of my head) that God doesn’t call the most obvious people to do His work. He choose those He wants and proves that His power and will can be done no matter WHO He chooses.
- I am really learning to love reading the words of these men and women. From a different time period, but men and women just like you and me. With struggles, with doubts, with flaws. Men and women who mess up time and again but God brings them back and proves His great love for them over and over again!
I work with women on a daily basis who want to make big changes in their health. Women, much like I was a few years ago, who are plagued by feelings and choices from their past that keep tripping them up.
Women who keep falling prey to that “Rider” that is chasing close behind them wanting to take them over and keep them from becoming who God is calling them to be. For some it’s bad relationships. For some, it’s cravings for food or drink that has turned into an addiction. For some its past failures and self doubt that is chasing them and making them fear trying again.
No matter what the issue, we ALL have that “Rider” chasing us that, with God’s help, we can run safely from and win the battle!
When reading this passage, I can see so clearly God’s people running on foot to escape the Egyptian soldiers. With their gallant horses, their swords drawn, their heavy armor. Oh what a frightful escape route that must have been!
But I also envision the looks on the Israelites faces as they watch the walls of water that they had so safely walked through fall onto the riders chasing them. The looks of relief as women holding children slumped to the ground and cried in JOY and sweet release! And I see Miriam and Moses and the Israelites dancing and singing:
I will sing to the Lord,
for he is highly exalted;
he has thrown the horse
and its rider into the sea.
2 The Lord is my strength and my song;
he has become my salvation.
This is my God, and I will praise him,
my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
3 The Lord is a warrior;
the Lord is his name.
4 He threw Pharaoh’s chariots
and his army into the sea;
the elite of his officers
were drowned in the Red Sea.
5 The floods covered them;
they sank to the depths like a stone.
6 Lord, your right hand is glorious in power.
Lord, your right hand shattered the enemy.
And I believe.
That if He would save the Israelites time and again from themselves and from the riders chasing them, that He will save us. From self doubt, from past failures, from excuses and fears.
Whatever is chasing you today, sweet sister, I challenge you to trust God with it. Don’t let that rider keep chasing you. God will cast it far into the depths of the sea where it belongs if you’ll give it over to Him!
Kim
March 7, 2018 at 1:41 pmSo beautiful! You helped me see a well-known Old Testament passage in a modern, applicable light. Thank you!