Have you ever spent an entire day alone and separated from the noisy world, simply for the purpose of meditating on God’s reality and then praising God for the specific ways he has led and preserved your life? The magnitude of listing his blessings in our lives is endless, which oftentimes keeps us from ever making it.

Moses was praising God for bringing his people across the Red Sea on dry land and giving the people triumph over Pharoah and their enemies who were pursuing them. All of God’s people, especially Moses, understood that their triumph was the direct result of God’s miraculous provision.

Moses had spoken for God, and the Pharaoh had been told Jehovah was the source of each plague. Moses had followed God’s calling to confront Pharaoh and lead his people from captivity. When they stood on the shore of the Red Sea, the waters parted, making a path for the freed slaves, and then the waters ceased parting and the Egyptian army was killed. Moses knew all that God had done and praised him, saying, “The Lᴏʀᴅ is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”

We often remember to praise God for the “big” victories in our lives. But some of our most important victories can often go unnoticed. The world’s coincidences are often God’s doing. Near misses are often an angel’s work in our lives. God has never stopped “parting the seas” that his children face. That said, God doesn’t always part the sea; sometimes he just swims the waters alongside us.

Everything God does in our lives is worthy of his praise. All that God does or allows is within his character and can be seen as his direct work and will. We were taught to pray, “Thy will be done,” but are we careful to notice his answers to that prayer and give him our praise?

Like Moses we can say, “The Lᴏʀᴅ is my strength and my song.” God is the reason Christians can live with the confidence of our eternal salvation in Christ. We can praise God at any time for the hope that is ours, now and always. 

We often congratulate or praise people for their personal achievements. How would your day be different tomorrow if you filled it with praise to your God for the immeasurable blessings he has provided in your life? 

Praising others is usually good. Yielding our highest praise to God is always good. Yielding to God’s wisdom is spiritual strength. Yielding our time and our praise to the One who is most deserving is wise.