by Pastor Douglas Brauner

God is Our Strength and Salvation in the Storms.

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“The LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”
Exodus 15:2a English Standard Version

When I go for daily walks, I often take one of my cameras with me. Whether its the umpteenth time I’ve walked a trail in my neighborhood or an adventure at the Black Forest Regional Park, I’ll purposefully take a camera with me..

On one of my walks, I saw this sign spray painted on the wall of a drainage ditch, “Live a life you will remember.”

How do we live a life that we will remember? There are plenty of books that will give us a ten step approach to live that life that we will remember. The problem is that when we’re finished reading we’ve already forgotten step one.

Moses and the people of Israel had lived through an event that they would never forget. Hemmed in by the Red Sea on one side and the Egyptian army on the other, they thought they were dead, but God provided a way out that they would never forget. God split the sea, they walked on dry ground, and watched the Egyptian army swallowed by the returning waters.

The life they would remember had nothing to do with what they did. It had everything to do with God’s strength. He provided the way through the sea. He became their salvation.

God is our way through this storm. We might feel that we’re hemmed in on all sides. We might cry out in bitter despair to God, yet he is our way through this mess. He is our strength and because he is our strength we can sing his song.

As God strengthened the Israelites in their wilderness wandering, he will strengthen us for the journey ahead. The life that we will remember is the life we live in him.

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