TREMBLE, O EARTH, AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD.

MONDAY, 9TH OCTOBER, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

TOPIC:  TREMBLE, O EARTH, AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD.

MEMORIZE: “… work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” Philippians 2:12.

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 114:1-8

“When Israel went out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language, 2 Judah became His sanctuary, And Israel His dominion. 3 The sea saw it and fled; Jordan turned back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs. 5 What ails you, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, that you turned back? 6 O mountains, that you skipped like rams? O little hills, like lambs? 7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob, 8 Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of waters”

EXPOSITION:

That the earth shook and trembled when God came down on Mount Sinai to give the law (Ps 114:4 

“The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.”): The mountains skipped like rams, and then the little hills might well be excused if they skipped like lambs, either when they are frightened or when they sport themselves.  The same power that fixed the fluid waters and made them stand still shook the stable mountains and made them tremble for all the powers of nature are under the check of the God of nature. Mountains and hills are, before God, but like rams and lambs; even the bulkiest and the most rocky are as manageable by him as they are by the shepherd. 

The trembling of the mountains before the Lord may shame the stupidity and obduracy of the children of men, who are not moved at the discoveries of his glory. The psalmist asks the mountains and hills what ailed them to skip thus; and he answers for them, as for the seas, it was at the presence of the Lord, before whom, not only those mountains, but the earth itself, may well tremble (Ps 114:7), since it has lain under a curse for man's sin. Psalm 104:32 “He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the hills, and they smoke.” 

Isa 64:3-4 “When You did awesome things for which we did not look, You came down, The mountains shook at Your presence. 4 For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, Nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.”. He that made the hills and mountains to skip thus can, when he pleases, dissipate the strength and spirit of the proudest of his enemies and make them tremble.

PRAYER POINT:  Lord, help me to honour you with my whole life in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Obadiah, Jonah 1 - 4.

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