Pass Over or Pass Through

In Exodus 12, after Moses had, with God's guidance, given Pharaoh many opportunities to release the people of Israel, God gave Moses and his brother Aaron instructions to prepare the people for freedom. They were to prepare a meal of roasted lamb with bitter herbs and bread without yeast. Some of the blood of the prepared lamb was to be put on the sides and tops of the door frames of each Israelite house so that, when God passed through Egypt to bring judgment on the Egyptians, God would pass over every Israelite house.God would be with them and protect them from harm.

But what about the Egyptians? Must all of the pay for the stubbornness of Pharaoh? Was God - who is everywhere, at all times - not with them?

I believe God was with them although they did not know it. I believe God wept for them and with them in their grief. I believe God holds all life and nothing, and no one, that returns to God is really lost.

11 Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. ’(Ezekiel 33:11)

Whether we are in a season of life where we are untouched by the storms that are passing over, or whether hurricane force winds are whipping around us,

God is with us.

God is with you.

8 "The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”(Duet. 31:8)

Storm calming God, protect, comfort, and strengthen those who are in the midst of literal and figurative storms.

Be still, my soul; thy God doth undertake To guide the future as He has the past. Thy hope, thy confidence, let nothing shake; All now mysterious shall be bright at last. Be still, my soul; the waves and winds still know His voice who ruled them while He dwelt below.