freedom is hard and long. “Let us alone and let us serve the Egyptians[.] For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness” (Ex 14:12). This desert experience is part of the Christian’s path through life. The “old man” in us resists deliverance from slavery to sin. And just as the Israelite people longed for the “fleshpots” of Egypt (Ex 16:3), so too it happens that we look back to the old life that we have left behind. Yet God, through the hand of Moses,