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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Psalms 105:1-22
Vv. 1-15 of this psalm form part (along with Psalms 96:1-13) of the one which is called the first, delivered by king David to Asaph after the return of the ark (1 Chronicles 16:7-22). There is just one slight yet very remarkable difference between the two! 1 Chronicles 16:15 demanded: "be ye mindful" of His covenant. By contrast v. 8 of our psalm declares: "He hath remembered . . ." Even though the people failed and forgot their covenant with God He remembered His promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (2 Timothy 2:13). Those promises were all that those men of God possessed. In the eyes of their contemporaries, they were nothing: they were "very few and strangers" in the land, just as Christians are today. But God was watching over them as He watches over us (vv. 14, 15; for example Genesis 31:24).
Then He sent "a man" who carried out His counsels: Joseph, a precious type of the Lord Jesus. First of all a slave, then a prisoner, he was freed by "the ruler of the people", who made him lord and ruler of all his possessions (vv. 17-21). Christ, once dead but raised by the power of God, will be established as Lord of all the earth and all the promises of God will be fulfilled in Him (Acts 2:36).
