Miriam and the people sing after crossing the Red Sea, and the question embedded in the song is almost casual: 'Who is like you among the gods, O Lord?' It's a rhetorical question. The answer is obvious. No one is like Him.
In seminary we studied this as a polemic against Egyptian polytheism. All those gods Pharaoh's magicians represented - they're being implicitly mocked. They're shown to be small, ineffective, ultimately irrelevant next to the God of Israel.
But what gets me pastorally is how much of our anxiety comes from treating other 'gods' as genuinely competitive. We're afraid of what money can do, what people's opinions can do, what circumstances can do - as if they had actual ultimate power. The song is declaring something radical: there is exactly one power that actually matters, and you've just seen Him act.
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