9th November 2026

Baptised Into Moses

(Pt 3. Mini Series on the Red Sea)

"All were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea."

1 Corinthians 10:2

Reading: Exodus 14:10-14. 

Centuries after the Red Sea, the apostle Paul looked back at that crossing and chose a surprising word for it. "Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea" (v 1-2).

Baptised into Moses. In going through those waters the people were bound to their leader — joined to the man God had appointed to bring them out. They passed through in him. Where he led, they lived.

Scripture is setting up its own signpost here, pointing from that seabed to the Lord Jesus Christ. What Moses was in picture, Christ is in reality. So when God tells us to see His salvation, He is not pointing us to a technique, a ritual, or a programme of self-improvement. Every one of those is a closed sea. The salvation of the LORD is a Person — and the question that finally matters is whether we are joined to Him.

For those who are, this is deeply steadying. Our standing before God does not rest on how well we crossed, or how steadily we walked, or how little we trembled between those walls of water. It rests on the One we are in.

Prayer:  Lord Jesus, salvation is not a method but a Person, and that Person is You. Join me to Yourself, and keep me resting in what You are. In Jesus' name. Amen. 

8th November 2026

Through, Not Round

(Pt 2. Mini Series on the Red Sea)

""When you pass through the waters,

I will be with you."

Isaiah 43:2

Reading: Exodus 14:19-22. 

God's answer came in the night. "Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided" (v 21). Walls of water stood to the right and to the left, and between them lay dry ground.

Notice the direction God chose. He did not carry His people over the sea, nor lead them around it by a safer road. His way out of slavery went straight through the very thing that meant death for them. That is how God saves, then and now. At the cross the judgement we deserved did not part for the Lord Jesus; it closed over His head, and on the third day He came up on the far side alive. The way through is a way He has already walked.

And how did Israel go in? "By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land" (Hebrews 11:29). Not by courage — they were terrified. Not by strength — they were slaves. They went in trusting the God who had opened the way and told them to walk.

The way stands open still, and so does the promise to everyone who takes it: "When you pass through the waters, I will be with you." We are not asked to be brave. We are asked to trust Him, and to walk.

Prayer: Father, You have opened a way through what I could never cross. Give me faith to walk it, trusting the Saviour who went through first. Amen.

7th November 2026

Stand Still and See

(Pt 1. Mini Series on the Red Sea)

"Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD,

which He will accomplish for you today."

Exodus 14:13

Reading: Exodus 14:10-14. 

Days out of Egypt, Israel found themselves cornered. In front lay the Red Sea; behind came Pharaoh's army. "So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the LORD" (v 10) — and then they turned on Moses: "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness?" (v 11). Trapped people say bitter things. God did not answer their bitterness. He answered their trap.

Then Moses gave an order that must have sounded impossible. Not "fight" — they had no weapons. Not "run" — there was nowhere to run. "Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD" (v 13). Their part was not to achieve the rescue but to watch it, and to receive it.

That is still God's word to the cornered. Whatever hems you in — your circumstances, the memory of your sins, a guilt you cannot argue away — the instinct is to do something, anything, to save yourself. But no effort of ours parts that sea. The salvation is God's, and it is a Person: the Lord Jesus Christ, who died and rose again to bring sinners out. Stop trusting your own strength, and look away from yourself to Him; And notice the last word of the promise: "which He will accomplish for you today." Not someday. It has a "today."

Prayer:  Lord, I cannot save myself. Turn my eyes from my own efforts to Your Son, and let today be the day I trust Him. Amen.