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skipping like lambs

Psalm 114:1-8

Psalm 114:1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a strange sounding people,
Psalm 114:2 Judah became His sanctuary, Israel his realm.
Psalm 114:3 The sea looked and fled; the Jordan turned back.
Psalm 114:4 The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
Psalm 114:5 Why do you flee, O sea? Why do you turn back, O Jordan River?
Psalm 114:6 Why do you skip like rams, O mountains, like lambs, O hills?
Psalm 114:7 Tremble, earth, at the presence of Yahveh, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
Psalm 114:8 who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.

skipping like lambs

While living in New Zealand, my wife and I visited a huge lamb farm. We took a tour of the farm which consisted of riding in the back of a pickup truck and viewing thousands of sheep while a worker explained the farm. There was a mass flow of sheep, but all of them got out of our way as soon as we appeared. The psalmist pictures the sea and mountains running to hide as Israel showed up in the wilderness. The power of God moved with them. That is what it means to be God’s in God’s presence.

LORD, give us awareness of your presence among us.