Day 3 on the Road to Easter
Lent Reflections #3 2026 from author Alison Lloyd
In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed. In your strength you will guide them to your holy dwelling.
Exodus 15: 13
When I called these posts ‘the road to Easter’, I was thinking of Wednesday’s verse about Abram going where God said. I also had a picture in my head of Jesus, walking his way around Israel, with Jerusalem and death as his final destination. Now I’m noticing that there are a lot of occasions in the Bible when God tells someone to go somewhere. (Or to stay put — there are some of those as well, although maybe less. Perhaps we generally like to stick to where we know. I do.)
Today’s quote is from Exodus, after God has told Moses to lead the Israelites out Egypt, the place where they have been living for centuries. This is part of the song Moses and the Israelites sang after the army pursuing them was miraculously drowned.
The point is, I think, that when God tells someone to go somewhere, (even just to live life in general), He doesn’t expect us to make the journey by ourselves. The Israelites didn’t know the way. Even if they had, they couldn’t make it there without help.
Same with me. I want my life to follow a trajectory towards God. But I can’t get to where He is under my own steam. I have a pretty good imagination, but it falls far short. I can’t reach ‘God’s holy dwelling’ — His holiness, glory, wonder and awe. I need His eternal, supernatural love and strength to lead me there.
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