Psalm 66 praises the awesome works of God remembering the
rescue through the sea when escaping from Egypt the children of Israel were
trapped between an army and a wet place. It is the story told time and again
down through the centuries. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord
heard your cry and with a mighty arm rescued you from Pharaoh’s grasp bringing
you to a land flowing with milk and honey. While it is remembered with shouts
of joy and singing it is also the story told when the milk has gone sour and
the honey runs out, when enemies are all around, when life hangs in the balance
and feet are on unsteady ground. When all seems hopeless in the present
remembering the providence of God in the past is how one gets through today and
into tomorrow. It is remembering God’s faithfulness that preserves the life
that is essential, the life of hope. It is remembering God’s mercy that places
the feet of faith on the solid ground of trust. And so we remember the awesome
work of God on our behalf, not a passing through the sea on dry land, but God
in human flesh passing through the sea of sorrow and suffering and death. In
the tomorrow that will be the day that never ends the enemy that will cringe
before God is death which like the chariots of Pharaoh has been swallowed up in
the sea of victory.
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