Today, I am reading and commenting on  Exodus 13-15.

My thoughts about today’s passage are scattered.  My first thought was similar to my thoughts about yesterday’s passage: the importance of communicating to the next generation the ways in which God has demonstrated His power and His love for us.  The point of the Passover celebration was to remind the Israelites about how God had saved them from captivity through His mighty power, and to communicate that to the next generation.  Then I came to the song which Moses and the Israelites sang after they crossed the Red Sea (or the Sea of Reeds, since the correct translation of the Hebrew is ambiguous).  There they praise God for rescuing them from Pharaoh’s mighty army.  The song reflects that Pharaoh and his army thought that they could strike down the Israelites with impunity, but that God acted to protect them.  Finally, we have the Israelites complaining about the absence of drinkable water at Marah, despite having experienced God’s power to save and care for them twice just before this.  This last reflects on our human nature to forget how God has cared for us in the past in the face of our latest struggle.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.