Someone said Moses wasn't a geographer, he was a prince in a grant. Mustered up hundreds of thousands of Israelites. Marshalled in rank and file, right into squadrons by Divine Appointment. And the followers, all 600,000+ pitched according to the standards. Unbelievable! The Israelites did everything the Lord commanded Moses; that is the way they encamped under their standards, and that is the way they set out, each of them with their clan and family." Numbers 2:34 !. So, what's the point here? It's our state in this world---moveable. We pitch our tents and press through no continuing city. May we live as fellow-pilgrims pressing on for the prize of Christ Himself and that future state of ours. Pitch together. Press onward.
The Commentary of Matthew Henry said let's get above our fears and let them quicken our prayers but not silence our hope. They thought it would have been better if they had died, that's how desperate it can get at times. Reach down deep. Move upward. Stand Still on the inside. "The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.” Exo 14:14. Don't ever give up.
Pharaoh and his army hurled into the sea. The best of the best. All because of our Defense. The Lord is a Warrior. The deep waters have covered them and they sank to the depths of the sea. Exodus 15:2, 5. And that meant this. They could walk on dry ground across a piled-up sea.
Getting ready to walk into an MRI and I have no earthly idea how claustrophobic me can do it. I am walking in on dry ground in the depth of my dilemma.
PHOTO: Church of the Martyrs in Rome. May we all pitch according to the standards set. For His Glory, if I could tell you one thing, it would be this. God is "with you" in your deepest problems. He has been with me all the way these 75 years as I write and I've been through a bit.
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