Daily Devotion

July 30, 2006

Psalms 106:11-12 And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left. Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.

The Lord does nothing halfway. In the day that he delivers his children from their enemies, he executes a full deliverance and there is no doubt as to who gets the credit for it.

When God desired to take a people from among the many tribes living on the earth, a people through whom he would reveal the character of His beloved Son to the world, He chose the children of Israel. To win their trust and confidence, God first gave them a leader who was from among them, one who was familiar with the Egyptian culture in which they lived. God also performed many mighty miracles in their midst while He delivered them from their oppressors. When all was said and done, there was no doubt in the mind of the people that God was with the children of Israel, and that he performed mighty miracles for them (Exodus 14). There was no doubt either in the mind of the children of Israel as to whom to accredit their complete deliverance. It was after they witnessed all these things, that they believed His Words and sang His praises. These events were forever to be their testimony to the nations.

In the same manner, Jesus Christ lived among us in order to be subjected to everything we are subjected to (Hebrews 4:15). He became familiar with the lives we face. By performing the miracle of resurrection, Jesus delivers us from the enemy of our soul who would love to keep us in bondage. As the waters of the Red Sea closed in on the Egyptian army, it delivered Israel from its pursuing enemy, and created a separating gulf between the two. In the same way, the waters of baptism drown the enslaving power the enemy wants to exercise on our soul, and creates a separation between our old life and us.

Let us then, as the children of Israel did after their miraculous deliverance, believe his Words, sing his praises, and live lives that reflect the testimony of his power.

1 Chronicles 16:8 Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.

Patrick Lumbroso
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