the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Exodus 15:1-16
What is the connection between this passage about the Red Sea, and the history of the redeemed of the Lord Jesus? It clearly refers to the work of Christ and our deliverance. While the Passover presents the aspect of deliverance from the judgment of God, and God against sin, the Red Sea illustrates salvation from the power of Satan and God for the sinner. Death is vanquished; the people of God from henceforth are taken out from this "present evil world", raised with Christ on the other side of death. Christ is not only the One who saves, but He who leads the praises in the midst of the Church (Psalms 22:22; Hebrews 2:12) "Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song . . ." (v. 1). It is the first song in the Scriptures. How could the people ever have sung under the burdens of the Egyptians? (cf. Psalms 137:4). But now joy fills the hearts of all the redeemed. Under the leadership of Christ, the true Moses, they have the privilege of praising Him who has delivered them from the mighty floods of death and from the power of the adversary. Throughout all the history of Israel – and for us through all eternity – there will be honour given to Him who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, and who made "the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over" (Isaiah 51:10).
