Faith's Sight of Salvation
Exodus 14 : 13

"And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever." (Exodus 14:13) What a word this word "salvation"! Oh the length of it! It is from eternity to eternity. And the height of it! It reaches from the highest heaven to the lowest hell. And the width of it! From Jew to Gentile, male to female, rich to poor, crossing every barrier. Oh, to be able to "see" the salvation of the Lord! But we'll never "see" it till we "stand still"! God must stop us on our run to destruction, hell. God must stop us, bring us to an end of our "going about to establish our own righteousness."(Rom. 10:1-4) God must stop us in our busyness of the world and God must enable us to "see". Moses said, "he will shew you." If and when He does, we'll see it is "of the Lord"!! As Jonah: Jonah 2:9 "But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay {that} that I have vowed. Salvation {is} of the Lord. If and when He does, we'll see it is "of grace"!! "For by grace are ye saved," Paul says in Ephesians 2. If and when He does, we'll see it is "in Christ"!! And we will see it is free, full and final, our sins being like the Egyptians, "ye shall see them again no more for ever." Only them will we "fear not"! That's why so many secretly fear in their hearts! Regardless of their profession of religion, their conduct, the assurances of men, their experiences, baptism...they've not seen the salvation of the Lord! When we see the salvation of the Lord, we see the covenant. "Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow." (II Sam. 23:5) All things ordered, purposed, planned and sure by the Lord in an everlasting covenant of salvation. When we see the salvation of the Lord, we see the cross. Not the wooden instrument of death but the death itself. The death of Christ by which He justifies sinners through and by the blood and righteousness of the One who bore our sins in His own body on the cross.
And we see the Christ! Like Simeon we say as we behold Him by faith through the gospel, "mine eyes have seen thy salvation!"