Psalms 68:28
Summon your power, O God,
the power, O God, by which you have worked for us.
Tag: God has Proven Power
In this Psalm the writer is expressing thanks to God for His Sovereign power over the enemies of His people. God is powerful. God demonstrates His power toward us. In the above verse we have three things to rejoice about:
1). God’s power is assumed. The writer doesn’t question that power of the God of the universe. He is powerful.
2). God’s power has been demonstrated in the past. He states that the power has “worked for us.” This means that God has demonstrated his power. God is not dormant with power. God utilizes his power and demonstrates His power. Notice how God demonstrated His power so that the Egyptians and Israelites would know His power. God raised up Pharaoh to show His power:
Exodus 9:16
But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
Sometimes God allows bad things to happen, just to demonstrate His power and draw our praise and adoration.
3). God’s power is for us. Notice what the text says, it not only “worked” but that it work “for us.” God intervenes for us with his power. God may allow bad things to happen in our lives but He uses that power to strengthen us through those things:
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
God uses our lives to demonstrate His power. He uses His power to draw His glory. When the psalmist prays to God, “summon your power, or God,” he is asking God to intervene in his life on his behalf to demonstrate the power of the God of the Universe. The good news is God shows us in human history He is willing to respond in extreme power.
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