He said, “If you listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes,
if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees,
I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord who heals you.”
Exodus 15:26
“We, too, pass through the Red Sea,
through the desert,
across the Jordan into the promised land.
With Israel we fall into doubt and unbelief and through punishment and repentance experience again God’s help and faithfulness.
All this is not mere reverie but holy, godly reality.
We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of our God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there He still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), Life Together, p 53 Harper & Row 1954