RPG Adults
SONG OF THE EXODUS
SATURDAY, MAY 11
Psalm 114:1-8
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
Lord, I need Thee every hour.
SONG OF THE EXODUS
This sublime song of the Exodus has reached its climax. It describes in sublimest language God leading forth His people through the wilderness to Canaan. Here is Isaac Watts’ (1712) restatement in his own words.
When Israel, freed from Pharaoh’s hand,
Left the proud tyrant and his land,
The tribes with cheerful homage own
Their King, and Judah was his throne.
Across the deep their journey lay,
The deep divides to make them way;
The streams of Jordan saw, and fled
With backward current to their head.
The mountains shook like frightened sheep,
Like lambs the little hillocks leap;
Not Sinai on her base could stand,
Conscious of sovereign power at hand.
What power could make the deep divide?
Make Jordan backward roll his tide?
Why did ye leap, ye little hills?
And whence the fright that Sinai feels?
Let ev’ry mountain, ev’ry flood,
Retire, and know th’ approaching God,
The King of Israel! see him here:
Tremble, thou earth, adore and fear.
He thunders — and all nature mourns;
The rock to standing pools he turns;
Flints spring with fountains at his word,
And fires and seas confess their Lord.
THOUGHT: We can see God’s mighty works!
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I believe.