(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
Judges 5:1–5, “Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying, Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves. Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel. LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.”
When the battle was over Deborah and Barak composed a song to celebrate their victory. They knew how important it was for them to remember all the good things that the Lord had done for them over the centuries since He called Abraham to be His servant. It is good to understand the pattern of this song. The song was a recital of the history they had just experienced. However, the song celebrated the Lord’s actions and not their own actions. As time went by Israel would learn to sing this song because it is easier to remember a song that some prose. The Lord’s plan is that His people remember all the good things things that He has done and the fact that He is good to have intervened on their behalf. The same it true today, we shouldn’t think about our own situation and how good it is we should think about the Lord and how good He is. The more we think about the Lord and the good things that He does the more inclined we will be to trust Him for the future.
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