“THEN THEY BELIEVED HIS WORDS!”

 Psalms 106:6-12                                            (ESV)

“6 Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness. 

7 Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider YOUR wondrous works; they did not remember the abundance of YOUR steadfast love, but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea. 

8 Yet HE saved them FOR HIS NAME’S SAKE, that HE might make known HIS MIGHTY POWER. 

9 HE rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry, and HE led them through the deep as through a desert. 

10 So HE SAVED THEM FROM THE HAND OF THE FOE AND REDEEMED THEM FROM THE POWER OF THE ENEMY. 

11 And the waters covered their adversaries; not one of them was left. 

12 “THEN THEY BELIEVED HIS WORDS;” they sang HIS praise.”

My focus during this devotional is A ”MIRROR” broken for HIS GLORY

Over the past several years I have had a picture in my mind about TRUE BELIEVERS being similar to a MIRROR reflecting CHRIST to a lost and dying world.  But only recently has that picture been more clearly defined to me.  Any mirror can reflect LIGHT, but a BROKEN MIRROR displays LIGHT in ways that can never be understood by those who have never been BROKEN!  The refraction of a BROKEN MIRROR can be breathtaking!  The image displayed will be unique to the precision of the BREAKS that mirror has experienced.  

BROKENNESS can be a painful, almost debilitating experience, but GOD often has to BREAK us VERY PRECISELY to bring us to where only HE GETS GLORY.  There are many instances that people give about being broken, but none will move us like personal experience will.  Telling you about my own BROKENNESS is too humiliating to put into words, just suffice it to say that JESUS says in Matthew 19:26 “...With man this is impossible, but with GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE."  A person’s personal BROKENNESS isn’t nearly as important and breathtaking as the HEALING that comes from afterwards.  

When JESUS opens our EYES to be able to SEE HIS HAND (usually on the other side of BROKENNESS), the LIGHT that is reflected by our BROKEN MIRROR may not be something we are especially proud of, but we want to CELEBRATE that we are repaired and still being used for HIS GLORY!  The Children of Israel had to get across the Red Sea experience before they REALLY BELIEVED!  Exodus 14:31 says “Israel saw the great power that the LORD used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the LORD, and THEY BELIEVED IN THE LORD and in his servant Moses.”  “THEN THEY BELIEVED HIS WORDS” is usually not something that comes without PROOF THAT HE IS GOD, which is more than likely a harrowing experience.  But when we get to the other side, we will be able to RECOGNIZE that GOD IS GREATER THAN OUR ENEMIES!  “THEN THEY BELIEVED HIS WORDS;” they sang HIS praise.”!!!