Psalm 135 is a psalm of praise that focuses, like many psalms, on specific things that God has done in history. Of course, other nations ascribed their victories to their various gods, but there is something notably different about the claim being made here. The victories that God wrought on behalf of his people were such that could not have been achieved by any natural means. In fact, the decisive events of Israel’s history were not even fought in the way battles are normally fought. Israel did not rise up in a violent slave-rebellion over Egypt to gain her freedom. No, God sent catastrophes upon Egypt at the behest of Moses, designed specifically to show that Yahweh is God and that the gods of Egypt were nothing at all. The decisive battle of Jericho which opened the conquest of the land involved the miraculous destruction of the walls of Jericho, again to clearly show that it is God who fights for his people. In the same way, the resurrection of Jesus demonstrated something in an equally tangible form. It demonstrated that the last enemy, death, had indeed been defeated by Jesus’ atoning sacrifice on the cross. Following this, God grew his church, against all odds, under severe persecution, to permeate this planet, just as Jesus predicted. God is at work in the world. He is a living and active God and you can be a part of what he is doing.
Praise God for what he is doing and ask him to use you today.
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