seekeroftruth
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Exodus 14:15 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. 16 Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground. 17 I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen. 18 The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen.”
Yesterday I read that Moses told the people to stay calm and let God do what He's going to do. Now, in the very next verse, it appears Moses goes running back to God saying "OMG OMG OMG what am I gonna do?" Can't you just see the panic?
Moses has over 2 million people stuck between the desert and the sea. The horizon is full of Egyptians. Moses stands in front of those 2 million people and says "relax, God's got this" and then he runs in his tent and whimpers out "OMG OMG OMG what am I gonna do?"
And then.... God's plan is really unbelievable.... Just walk across the sea.... I'm pretty sure Moses is saying "well why didn't I think of that?
" I don't know why Moses didn't think of that.... I mean every human has the capacity, talent, and knowledge to raise a staff and stretch out a hand so 2 million people can just walk across the river on dry ground. Sometimes I can almost see God chuckling.There's something bigger going on here.... Pharaoh had mocked God. Remember back in Exodus 5:2 Pharaoh thought he was bigger and badder than God. God is going to show all the Egyptians why Pharaoh should let the Israelites go.
Oh... I guess I should put in a link to a real commentary.
In GodVine the commentary is about the relationship between Moses and God.
We hear not one word of Moses' praying, and yet here the Lord asks him why he cries unto him? From which we may learn that the heart of Moses was deeply engaged with God, though it is probable he did not articulate one word; but the language of sighs, tears, and desires is equally intelligible to God with that of words. This consideration should be a strong encouragement to every feeble, discouraged mind: Thou canst not pray, but thou canst weep; if even tears are denied thee, (for there may be deep and genuine repentance, where the distress is so great as to stop up those channels of relief), then thou canst sigh; and God, whose Spirit has thus convinced thee of sin, righteousness, and judgment, knows thy unutterable groanings, and reads the inexpressible wish of thy burdened soul, a wish of which himself is the author, and which he has breathed into thy heart with the purpose to satisfy it.
Pharaoh had just recovered from the consternation and confusion with which the late plagues had overwhelmed him, and now he is emboldened to pursue after Israel; and God is determined to make his overthrow so signal by such an exertion of omnipotence, that he shall get himself honor by this miraculous act, and that the Egyptians shall know, i.e., acknowledge, that he is Jehovah, the omnipotent, self-existing, eternal God.
