Imagine you’re an Israelite on Day One after the Crossing of the Red Sea: when you realize the completeness of the Lord’s victory.

The faith to follow his precepts is a gift God gives us to keep us free inside. So, when we ask: Who will deliver me from this body of death? How are we truly set free?

The Lord from scripture answers: “Come out and be separate… and I will receive you… I will welcome you.” (2 Cor. 6:17)

If we doubt this — Why from such bounty into the wilderness? Who is this God? Where is he in this place, where there are no Temples to him, no great Arks carrying him? — He is reminding us that he really is with us in this process of trust and through our growth in faith!