Exodus 15:1-5 "Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him. The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name. Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea. The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone."
For many, me included, music and song are integral aspects of our worship and praise. It is a way to express a great well of emotions from our deepest sorrows to our greatest triumphs. We use songs to tell how the LORD of heaven and earth has impacted our lives both here and for eternity. Moses and the children of Israel sang a song of victory unto the LORD.
Moses and the children of Israel saw a marvelous thing. Pharaoh’s host, both man and horse had been led into the Red Sea and drowned. Their enemy would pursue them no longer. After four hundred and thirty years, their oppressor had fallen to rise no more. They understood that this was a song unto the LORD about His greatness and not about how great they were.
Truly, the LORD had been their salvation for generations. His promise had been with them and His hand upon them since the days of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But for this generation, this was the first time they had seen and felt the working of His mighty hand in their lives. He had made their deliverance personal to each of them and they had experienced Him directly as the author of their salvation.
Dear ones, our LORD saw the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:9-10). He drowned sin and death (the horse and his rider) in the sea of the blood of His only begotten Son. We stand upon the shore of His deliverance and sing to His glory that He has triumphed gloriously and has done for us what we could not do for ourselves. The depths of God’s love has covered our oppressors. They have been swallowed up in His might to rise no more. To borrow the words of one of my favorite songs, “I will sing of the goodness of God!”