# 50 2019 Dev. Psalm 77:13. God’s Ways! Read all of Ps.77. The purpose of these devotionals is to draw Gremar and I closer to God and grow spiritually by applying His Word to our daily living. All passages are taken from the NIV.
Ps. 77:13 “Your ways, God, are holy. What god is as great as our God?”
The Psalmist in Ps.77, the fifth Psalm of this series, now calls into question the themes that highlight the first four Psalms of this series: Does God not listen? Is God angry? God’s unfailing love, God’s promises, God’s mercy and God’s compassion all seem to be missing in the experience of the Psalmist (vs.1-9).
There are times in our lives as well that God seems to be missing. The Psalmist deals with this apparent rejection in the same way we may want to deal with it; by meditating on God’s past deeds (vs. 10-12). He further contemplates God’s ways, God is Holy and great, performs miracles and redeems his people (vs.13-15). We may well want to identify with the Psalmist’s conclusion: God’s ways are holy and He is always with His people!
In vs.16-19 The Psalmist meditates on one of the main events in the redemption of God’s people; God breaking the chains of slavery, by leading them through the the Red sea (waters) out of the hands of Egypt’s Pharaoh and leading his “people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.”
The Psalmist here gives us the back story to our own salvation: the slavery of sin’s chains is broken in our lives by Christ’s death on the cross, we are baptized into Jesus’ death and resurrection by faith. The power of God’s Holy Spirit is given to us as a gift. God has provided leaders to lead and guide us to the promised land. We now have the great privilege to live out God’s salvation and God’s purpose of redeeming His people and world. From our baptism to the time of entering the promised land God prepare us for service here on earth and for our service in The New Heaven and New Earth. Praise be to God!
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