Exodus 14:10-14 - Why did you rescue us

14:10-12

So far in this chapter we have seen:

1. What God was thinking (14:1-4)

2. What the Egyptians were thinking (14:5-9)

Now we get what the Israelites were thinking, and this was not good! The Israelites looked and saw the approaching Egyptian army. This filled them with fear and they cried out to the Lord. After that they turned on Moses. They blamed him for bringing them out of Egypt, claiming they had just wanted to be left alone and that all this trouble was down to Moses. This is not strictly true, for the people had been crying out to God because of the harsh regime they were under. They now thought that they would have been better staying under this harsh regime, they also thought that they had been brought out into the desert to die. Their thinking was completely mistaken. Their thinking about what things had been like was badly skewed (and would become even more skewed later on in their journey through the wilderness). Their thinking of what was going to happen to them could not have been more wrong. We need to realise that when we are facing real trouble that our thinking is usually very unreliable.

14:13,14

We now learn what Moses was thinking, or, at least, what he was telling them. Moses told them to “Fear not”. Jesus often used these, or similar, words to His disciples. Instead of fearing they were to stand firm, and then they would see the salvation of the Lord. God would work this salvation for them. One of the consistent lessons of the Bible is that God is active, too often we treat faith as a passive thing. We do not worship a passive God! The Lord would fight for them, all they needed to do was to be silent. Sometimes we just need to be silent, to stop worrying, and we will see the Lord fight for us.