Begin with two minutes of stillness and silence before God.

Our God is gracious and kind. We see many examples of that in the history of Israel.  In our reading today, the Psalmist recounts how the Lord rescued His people, even when they doubted His goodness. Specifically, the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt is mentioned. If you refer back to Exodus when the Lord was preparing the Israelites to leave Egypt, you’ll see that even after they had seen His miraculous works, there were a few occasions where they didn’t believe Moses, the person He had called to deliver His people, and they questioned God. Yet, God was faithful in showing them His love and His grace. As the Lord continued to redeem them, they believed Him and sang His praise, as the Psalmist writes in verse 12. They sang His praise for a time, but we know that the rest of Israel’s history includes ups and downs of the Lord offering grace and His chosen people rejecting Him for a time and enduring consequences for their disobedience. Through all of those instances, He was still speaking to them through the prophets, asking them to repent and proclaiming that a Messiah would come from the line of David. We know the rest of the story. Jesus Christ came to earth as a vulnerable baby, lived a sinless life, died a criminal’s death, and was resurrected to life again on the third day. After around 40 days, He ascended into Heaven where Scripture tells us He sits at the right hand of the Father waiting for the time to return and set all things right. Christ’s work extended salvation beyond God’s chosen people to include people from every tribe, nation, and tongue.   

Take two minutes to reflect in silence.

Reflection: 

• Have you trusted in the Lord to save you? If you have, are you walking with Him and living for Him? He has so much grace for you, just as we read in Psalm 106 today. If you haven’t trusted the Lord for salvation, reach out to someone you can talk to about this. 
  
• How has reading this Psalm impacted you today?
• Conclude your Bible Study time with a prayer of thankfulness, maybe even by writing your own “psalm” of praise to the Lord.