IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR THE LORD ON OUR SIDE

Proclamation:

“If it had not been for The Lord on our side when people attacked us, they would have swallowed us alive when their anger flared against us; the flood waters would have engulfed us, the torrent would have swept us away.”  Psalm 124:2-5 (NIV)

Explanation:

The words of this psalm were written by King David under the influence of The Holy Spirit of God.  This is another song of ascent which the children of Israel sang as they made their way up the hills to Jerusalem to worship.  As the Israelites looked back over their history, it was obvious that The Lord God had moved in their lives and made it possible for them to get to that point.  They survived attacks from their enemies, bondage in captivity, the Red Sea, and the Jordan River, and they were grateful. (Psalm 124:6)

Application:

As we look back over our lives, we know that we did not make it this far on our own.  Believers can see the hand of God at work making a way out of no way to help us make it. (Isaiah 43:19)  We have been attacked, verbally and physically, by people and by the devil, in ways which affected our health, mental and physical, our family and friends, our finances and our circumstances, and The Lord made a way for us to make it through.  We should be thankful and praise The Lord, because if it had not been for The Lord on our side where would we be?