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Intro
Imagine the scene; you’re traveling with all you have.
You have your clothes and your belongings bound up in bags.
You have your household kitchenware and all your money and jewelry packed up.
You are carrying as much food as you can, as well as all your family livestock.
The army of Egypt is in pursuit.
Itcame to a halt within striking distance.
They set up a staging camp.
Then your leader, Moses sends word around;
As the message was being passed around the camp.
The presence of God moved from being in front of our camp to behind.
The cloud blocked the way.
The army can’t cross.
We are protected for now.
Then wind began to blow from the east.
It blew, and blew and blew.
Night fell.
The pillar of cloud took on its nightly fiery appearance.
The wind kept blowing from the east across the lake.
You try to get some sleep.
You sleep fitfully.
You’re afraid.
What if the fiery cloud doesn’t stop the army?
What if they launch a sneak attack at night?
What happens come day break?
You can’t sleep any more.
You quietly wander around the camp.
The wind is still blowing.
You look out across the lake.
You can make out in the darkness a channel forming in the water.
A chasm. the water is being held up on either side.
You can faintly make out parts of the bottom of the lake appearing below.
The relentless wind dries the ground as it appears.
Then there is a flurry of activity in the camp.
It’s a wake up call.
“Wake up, get packed!
We’re moving.”
You gather your family and you secure all your belongings.
In the hour that followed, in the darkness of the early early morning, we prepared to move again.
We formed into our traveling column and we began to move.
We went the only way open to us, forward into the lake.
The wind howled.
The bottom was dry.
We marched down into the lake with everything we had.
Our families, our livestock, everything we have marched down into the watery chasm in the dim predawn light.
The army behind us spotted the movement.
They saw our escape though the lake.
We were on the move, we were coming up out the other side.
The hoard of chariots gave chase.
They would not let us go.
They pursued us.
They were defiant.
The first of their chariots entered into the lake, on the same path we had just trod.
The chariots seemed to be making great headway at first.
Perhaps they would catch us?
Then there was a shout!
One of the chariots was bogged in the lake.
There was confusion.
The hoard of chariots was now well within the lake, but they slowed.
Their progress came to a halt as they became stuck in the mud.
There you sat, on the far side of the lake staring down in the dim light at an entire army stuck at the bottom with walls of water on either side.
They seemed so small now.
The army appears almost insignificant.
Helpless.
Remind me why I was afraid of this lot again?
You see Moses standing at the waters edge, looking down at the scene below.
The sun was beginning to peak over the horizon.
Moses raised his staff, silently.
The water began to flow.
Then the water gushed.
The water sloshed back into place, covering the struggling army.
They were buried beneath the waves.
They disappeared from sight.
They were gone.
Then calm.
The sunlight’s rays began to warm the earth, shining down, illuminating a clear calm lake.
There was no army.
There was no pursuit.
There was not a chariot to be seen.
Then you wonder; “What kind of God is this?
Who is this God of ours that can do that?”
Your fear grows, though this time you are not in fear of an army, your fear is of this God who has plucked you out of the hands of the enemy.
Even so, you are overcome with relief!
You feel the joy wash over you.
You feel the tension give way to the feeling of victory!
We are free!
We are saved!
We are Israel, and our God triumphs over all!!
This causes for celebration.
You can’t help yourself.
You rummage through your pack and grab you tambourine.
Who would have thought you would need this so soon hey?
There was a procession forming up behind Miriam, and you joined the throng with all the other women.
You break into dance.
You sing and shout!
What a great day for your people!
This will go down in history!
We will never forget God’s triumph this day!
As you dance and celebrate, Moses opened his mouth and with a booming voice, he began to sing...
This is where we are going to hang out this morning, in the moment between.
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