Deeper Reflection
VERSES 16 TO 17 GIVE A DESCRIPTION OF GOD’S MIGHTY deliverance in the Exodus. Pharaoh’s army was literally destroyed in the sea, “extinguished, quenched like a wick” (v.17; cf. Exo 14:28). In stark contrast, God brought His children through the impossible obstacle of the Red Sea (Exo 14:29). For the Jews, this salvation event was the mighty saving event of all events! Yet the Lord told the Israelites in Isaiah’s time to forget this (v.18). Why? Because what God was about to do, that is, bring the Israelites back from exile in Babylon and reform the nation of Israel, would be an even more astounding miracle! And it came to pass as He promised! Sometimes we may be so caught up in how things were done in the past that we lose sight of what God might be doing in the present.Verse 19 was an anchor word the Lord gave to our church over the past two pandemic years. He was saying that He was likewise doing something new in us amid the plague. This week as we celebrate Covenant’s 44th Anniversary – and as we exit the pandemic into endemicity – it is right and necessary to take some time to review what has happened over the past two years. Therefore, we will do just that for the first three days of this week, that is, Monday to Wednesday. Then from Thursday to Saturday, we will look at what we believe the Lord is directing us towards in the season ahead. So let us prayerfully begin this period of reflection and seek to perceive what God is doing.
