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📖 Verse Of The Day

— Galatians 3:24

🧠 Devotional

The Bible isn’t just made up of stories, laws, and history. It’s made up of songs too.

In fact, the largest book of the Bible, Psalms, is made up of songs. But Psalms isn’t where the first song is introduced. That first time was in Exodus 15:1, when Moses and the Israelites celebrated after crossing the Red Sea.

We call it “The Song of the Sea” or “The Song of Moses.” It’s a victory song celebrating God’s miraculous deliverance of Israel from Pharaoh and his army.

Here’s the full song:

Exodus 15:1-18 – The Song of the Sea

Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, “I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is his name.
Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea.
The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone.
Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power, your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy.
In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble.
At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up; the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’
You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.
Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?
You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them.
You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed; you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.
The peoples have heard; they tremble; pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.
Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling seizes them; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
Fear and dread fall upon them; by the greatness of your arm they are still as a stone, till your people, O Lord, pass by, till the people whom you have purchased pass by.
You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain, the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.
The Lord will reign forever and ever.

The Song of Moses shows us why God gave us songs. They let us celebrate, remember, and shout back at His power. Every time we sing, we’re joining that first crowd at the Red Sea, praising God for what He’s done in our lives.