Psalm 114 He Cares For You

God Cares for His People – The Deliverance of Israel from Bondage

      1     When Israel went forth from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of  strange language,

      2     Judah became His sanctuary, Israel, His dominion.  

      3     The sea looked and fled – the  Jordan turned back.

      4     The mountains skipped like rams, the hills, like lambs.

      5     What  ails you, O sea that you flee? O Jordan that you turn back?

 6     O mountains that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs?  

      7     Tremble, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob,

      8     Who turned the rock into a pool of water, the  flint into a fountain of waters. 

 Even today with our greatest technology, life can be quite the challenge. We have no control over the rivers and seas, the quaking of the earth and the crumbling of the mountains.  Aside from the glorious majesty and beauty that is presented before our eyes, God's power over all these things can cause much destruction and devastation to mankind. God controls all nature—and to Him all of this is as nothing.          

The Lord led His people, Israel, out of a land of bondage and slavery.  From their presence in Egypt God used His servant Moses, to lead them out from under bondage to a new land filled with 'milk and honey.'  Everything there was good and was given because God cared for His people and loved them.  The Lord's own spirit was the backbone of these people that He had created with His own hand.  He cares for and loves them to this present day.  To tremble at God's presence, [vs.7] is to recognize God's complete power and control over any situation—and our frailty by comparison.   Amen.