The thoughts of a newly married, recently graduated, christ-seeking, pastor-to-be

Onward Christian Soldier pt. 1.1

The Exodus (Exodus 1-14)
The first time that comes to mind when I think of God’s power being enacted in the face of overwhelming odds is when the not quite yet nation of Israel is a multitude of slaves in Egypt. They are a people have been told be meek, passive, and to humble themselves for the Egyptians and their host of gods.
And there is one slave who by the wisdom of his mother is orphaned for an hour to rise suddenly into power as a prince of Egypt. He is a young man who lives an alien life. At a crucial point he realizes who he is and tries ineffectively to show his people their true nature, and ultimately must run-away into the desert.
As this young man ends up living amidst an unchained nomadic tribe oh his people he gets to encounter his might God and learn his place in life, a Soldier of the most high God. And God sends him on a mission back to Egypt. Here one nomadic prophet, one former prince, goes before the most powerful mortal ruler who has a host of gods behind him, and this prophet has but one.
So what does he do? He tells this self-fancied incarnation of a god to release an entire people of slaves numbering in the hundreds of thousands. He does this because his King, God, commanded it. And being the all-wise, most powerful mortal ruler, self-fancied incarnation of a god, Pharaoh says… “No.”
What comes to follow is a battle of Godly proportions as the prophet proclaims supernatural plagues upon the nation of Egypt and 12 times more the Pharaoh refuses to surrender. Granted the pharaoh tried with the help of al his priests to disprove or duplicate the plagues as to diminish God’s power, but utterly failed miserably. It takes the death of his first-born son to finally release the slaves, capitulating out of grief to the prophet and his God.
But in his grief, there is also anger, and the ruler attempts to deceive the almighty God and his prophet. When the slaves are almost free, they are at a sea they must cross, the armies of the Pharaoh appear on the horizon to slay these weakened slaves while their backs are against a wall of water. But the prophet, at the bequest of his God stands before the water, and commands it to make way for the people of the God who created the water. And as the people rush through the canyon lined with water their enemies follow only to find out the terrifying truth of God’s wrath, as the water allows the slaves to pass but closes behind and crushes the armies.
The Lesson? God+You=Victory.