Salvation Shakes the Earth
Psalm 114 is weird. It's weird because the Psalmist has a conversation with a Sea, a river and mountains. The Psalm recounts Israel's deliverance from Egypt in a unique way and asks questions of the Earthly elements that made way for God's people now saved. Psalm 114:3–6 (NLT) The Red Sea saw them coming and hurried out of their way! The water of the Jordan River turned away. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs! 5 What’s wrong, Red Sea, that made you hurry out of their way? What happened, Jordan River, that you turned away? 6 Why, mountains, did you skip like rams? Why, hills, like lambs? The Psalmist personifies these things to make a point: A sea hurries out of the way. The Jordan made a turn for them. What's the point? It's a reminder that when God does a work in someone's life, obstacles have to move! The opening verses give this away: Psalm 114:1–2 (NLT) When the Israelites escaped from Egypt— when the family of Jacob l...