Psalm 114
The Wonder-Working Power!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, August 11.
As one of the Egyptian Hallel psalms, Psalm 114 commemorates the exodus from Egypt, when God supernaturally rescued His people from slavery, but it also references their miraculous entry into the Promised Land forty years later. Verses 1-3 reference both major events, “When Israel went forth from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, Judah became His sanctuary, Israel, His dominion. The sea looked and fled; the Jordan turned back.” In naming both “the sea” and “the Jordan,” the psalmist demonstrated God’s finished work of redemption, from the time of Moses when he led the Israelites out of slavery (Exodus 14:13-31), to the time of Joshua when they crossed into the Promised Land (Joshua 3). While history demonstrates that the Israelites had a long way to go in conquering the peoples of the Promised Land, God had miraculously brought them into it after forty years of signs and wonders, bookended by the splitting of both the Red Sea and the Jordan River.
Never forget that the wonder-working power of God is on your side! After God split the Red Sea for them to escape an enraged Pharoah, the people proclaimed of their God in Exodus 15:11, “Who is like You among the gods, O Lord? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, awesome in praises, working wonders?” They named it – apart from God’s redemption, they would not have been delivered from slavery nor escaped certain destruction on the shore of the Red Sea. Do you know your absolute need for the wonder-working power of God in your life today? Apart from God’s redemption through Jesus Christ, there is no forgiveness of sin and each of us must face certain death as we approach the shores of eternity.
Seize the moment and pray Psalm 114, meditating upon the wonder-working power of Jesus Christ, “which mightily works within [you]” (Colossians 1:29). Walk by the Spirit today (Galatians 5; Romans 8)!
God bless you!
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