6. He turned the sea into dry land. He who
did this can do anything, and must be God, the worthy object of adoration. The
Christian’s inference is that no obstacle in his journey heavenward need hinder
him, for the sea could not hinder Israel, and even death itself will be as
life. They went through the flood on foot. Through the river the tribes
passed dry-shod; Jordan was afraid because of them. There did we rejoice in him. Faith casts herself bodily into the past joys of the saints, and
realizes them for herself in much the same fashion in which she projects
herself into the bliss of the future, and becomes the substance of things hoped
for. Israel’s joy was in her god; there let ours be. It is not so much what he
has done, as what he is, that should excite in us a sacred rejoicing.
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