Exodus 15

When I am overjoyed, I easily burst into song. Or I scream with giddy delight. Either way, we are built to be like that for a reason. This is is the first song in the whole Bible, and I think it’s indicative of how truly good God really is. 

Moses can’t help, along with Miriam and the women of the group, to break out into song, music, and dance to celebrate not only what God has done but who God is! They sing that out of his character are his deed of deliverance. What a life to live to burst out in worship with your whole voice and body to the One True God! 

Yet, after the song, the people start their groaning and muttering complaints. In one moment, they sing, dance, and worship God. They have seen him move and trust in him wholly. The next, they are bitter, shaking their fists, and immediately forgetting all about the worthiness of God that made them worship in the first place. 

I read this and was so sad. I see this every day in my own life and in the life of the people I lead. How fickle and easily bitter we become because we so easily forget who God is and how much he loves us. He has never once abandoned us and his covenant with us! Yet we forget and make up instead a cruel god that is easy to be made at instead of remembering the God who is wholly good and worthy of every breath of worship. Church, how can we become a people giddy with delight at Jesus? How can we cling to the moments of deliverance, of promises fulfilled of holy transformation in our life instead of the small insignificant moments of worldy hurt and grumbling? 

Father, fill us with a song we cannot contain. Remind us of that we know our God, you are not far, you are near. You do not abandon or forsake, but will draw near even if we have forgotten and abandoned you. God, do not let go of us, but teach us to be those who use every breath to breathe out worship to you the only one worthy of any worship at all. Jesus, teach us to be faithful and Spirit hlpe us look like Jesus.