“The Lord is my
strength and my song, and he has become my salvation” (Exodus 15:2). How does the unchanging God “become” something to
his people? It isn’t that he suddenly attains a characteristic he did not
already own by nature. It is that his people come to know him by experience in
a way they did not know him before.
That
generation of people had only known the experience of living in slavery in
Egypt. Once God revealed himself through ten plagues so that he delivered them
out of their slavery, then added this miraculous sign and wonder of parting the
Red Sea for their deliverance, and returning the Red Sea to its shores in their
enemy’s destruction, Moses and the people could say that that LORD had become
to them their personal salvation in a way they had never known him before (even
though everything about God that brought about their deliverance was true of
God the whole time).
Because God is unchanging in his infinite and eternal glory, and we are finite little children with so much to learn, today should be a day that we expect to get to know God better than we have ever known him before. And, it just may be that someone will come up with a new song to praise God for what he has become to us in that new and delightful way.
Because God is unchanging in his infinite and eternal glory, and we are finite little children with so much to learn, today should be a day that we expect to get to know God better than we have ever known him before. And, it just may be that someone will come up with a new song to praise God for what he has become to us in that new and delightful way.
© 2013 Monte Vigh ~ Box 517,
Merritt, BC, V1K 1B8 ~ in2freedom@gmail.com
Unless otherwise noted,
Scriptures are from the English Standard Version (The Holy Bible, English
Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good
News Publishers.)
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