[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0312":3},"MARCH 12\r\nThe Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all\r\nthat night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the\r\nlocusts... Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste.... And the lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the\r\nlocusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt (Exod. 10:13, 19).\r\nSee how in the olden times, when the Lord fought for Israel against the cruel Pharaoh, the stormy winds wrought out their deliverance;  and yet again, in that grandest display of power the last blow that\r\nGod struck at the proud defiance of Egypt A strange, almost cruel\r\nthing it must have seemed to Israel to be hemmed in by such a host of dangers-in front the wild sea defying them, on either hand the\r\nrocky heights cutting off all hope of escape, the night of\r\nhurricane gathering over them. It was as if that first deliverance\r\nhad come only to hand them over to more certain death. Completing the terror there rang out the cry: \"The Egyptians are upon us!\"\r\nWhen it seemed they were trapped for the foe, then came the\r\nglorious triumph. Forth swept the stormy wind and beat back the\r\nwaves, and the hosts of Israel marched forward, down into the path of the great deep-a way arched over with God's protecting love.\r\nOn either hand were the crystal walls glowing in the fight of the\r\nglory of the Lord; and high above them swept the thunder of the\r\nstorm. So on through all that night and when, at dawn the next day, the last of Israel's host set foot upon the other shore, the work\r\nof the stormy wind was done.\r\nThen sang Israel unto the Lord the song of the \"stormy wind fulfilling his word. \"\r\n\r\n\"The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the\r\nspoil.... Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.\"\r\nOne day, by God's great mercy, we, too, shall stand upon the sea of glass, having the harps of God. Then we shall sing the song of\r\nMoses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb: \"Just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.\" We shall know then how the\r\nstormy winds have wrought out our deliverance.\r\nNow you see only the mystery of this great sorrow; then you\r\nshall see how the threatening enemy was swept away in the wild night of fear and grief.\r\nNow you look only at the loss; then you shall see how it struck at the evil that had begun to rivet its fetters upon you.\r\nNow you shrink from the howling winds and muttering thunders; then you shall see how they beat back the waters of destruction, and\r\nopened up your way to the goodly land of promise.\r\n--Mark Guy Pearse.\r\nThough winds are wild,\r\nAnd the gale unleashed,\r\nMy trusting heart still sings: I know that they mean\r\nNo harm to me,\r\nHe rideth on their wings.",1783499792050]