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Psalm Chapter 105
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- Jul 1, 2026
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- 278
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Summary
Psalm 105: The Long Faithfulness This psalm is a history lesson — but not the kind you slept through. It is the story of God keeping a single promise across centuries, through famine and slavery and exile and plague, with the patience of someone who has all of eternity to work with. The promise was made to Abraham: "Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan." And then the psalm traces, with evident relish, every twist and turn of the plot God used to fulfill it. Joseph sold into slavery — that was God sending a man ahead. The famine that drove Israel into Egypt — that was God setting the stage. Moses and Aaron, the plagues, the darkness, the frogs in the chambers of kings, the hail and the locusts — all of it, the psalmist insists, was God remembering his holy promise to Abraham his servant. What makes this psalm extraordinary is not the events themselves — Exodus tells them with more drama — but the interpretive lens. Every catastrophe, every detour, every inexplicable suffering was, it turns out, a corridor in a house God was building. "He brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness." The joy was always coming. It just had to travel a very long road to get there. 00:00 Remember His Marvellous Works 01:00 The Covenant with Abraham 02:00 Joseph in Chains, Joseph in Power 03:00 Plagues Upon Egypt 04:00 Brought Forth with Joy