His Righteous Acts

 DEVOTION

JUDGES

HIS RIGHTEOUS ACTS

Judges 5:10-12

10 "You who ride on white donkeys, sitting on your saddle blankets, and you who walk along the road, consider 11 the voice of the singers at the watering places. They recite the righteous acts of the LORD, the righteous acts of his warriors in Israel. "Then the people of the LORD went down to the city gates. 12'Wake up, wake up, Deborah! Wake up, wake up, break out in song! Arise, O Barak! Take captive your captives, O son of Abinoam.'

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In another Stanza of the song of Deborah and Barak, that rings is a prophetic voice. Who sits on the white donkey? Although it may or may not have been white, Jesus was the anointed one riding on a donkey into Jerusalem. Interestingly, today is when we celebrate that very event called Palm Sunday. It is always good to recite the righteous acts of the LORD. That is what was happening as they walked along the road, considering the LORD, “Hosanna in the highest”, and “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD”. “Blessed is the Son of David” and on and on were the praises for Jesus. It would be good for us to continue to praise the righteous acts of our Lord instead of limiting ourselves to one Sunday a year. Most likely we will not be waving palms every day and even then when we do it is only in church, but we should be waving our hearts every day, and maybe, just maybe waving our hands every other Sunday. When we sing those songs, even those hymnals of old, we are singing of the mighty and righteous acts of our Lord and we would think we would “Wake up” just a bit and sing from the depths of our soul and our hands would simply follow our souls singing. There might be something within us that we need to take captive. Maybe we might think it is the sin that so easily entangles us, but it may be our timidness of worship that we need to take captive and let our soul sing of the praises of his righteous acts. Although we are singing within our souls all the days of our lives, we also could be reciting his righteous acts wherever we go, maybe not as warriors in Israel, but as soldiers in the army of God. We can sing, “Onward Christian soldier, marching as onto war” as our battle cry. But better yet we can sing of his righteous acts, reciting them over and over until our soul cries out the praises of our Lord, and our hearts are so full, it would only make sense to us to wave something, and we always have our hands. Let us sing out from our soul and wave onto the Lord because of his righteous acts.