Give Him the glory. Great things He has Done!

 Read Psalm 124.

Those making the journey up to Jerusalem for the feast days encouraged each other with this song of remembrance.  As they looked back on the tests and tragedies of the past, they broke out in praise to God.  They did this, not once, but every time they made this trip.  They told the stories again and again.

If they had been attacked by an enemy was it not the army who fought back?  Yes.  But it was the LORD on their side who gave them the victory.  If the crops failed and they faced financial ruin was it not a timely rain that saved them?  Yes.  But it was the faithful and caring LORD who sent the rain.  If great loss or suffering threatened to be their end was it not physicians and friends who ministered to them.  Yes.  But it was the LORD who provided all the help that was needed.

When crises hit, people rightly seek help and pray for God's deliverance.  Yet, once the crisis is over and things return to normal, so do they.  They forget to thank those who helped them and they ignore the God who delivered them.  The LORD spares us in such times for a reason.  That reason is so we will never stop praising Him and telling others what a great God we serve.

Here then is the story of our lives: "If it had not been for the LORD who was on our side" all would have been lost.

“We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD and his might, and the wonders that he has done.  He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God.” (Psalm 78:4-7)