October 6, 2025

It is essential that we remember the trials and tribulations from our past and worship and praise God for our deliverance from evil. Psalms 137 is in memory of the captivity in Babylon. Through this song, we can understand the difficulties faced by the children of Israel, who were exiled there, and their captors pressing them to sing to them a sacred song meant for worshipping God! 

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. Psalms 137:3

It is also a reminder that even though they settled in as servants of the Babylonians, they were still treated harshly and endured disturbing atrocities, as noted by the end of this psalm, where they seem to expect God’s vengeance upon the Babylonians by treating their babies the way their children had been treated; it paints a horrific image.

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. Psalms 137:9

Although our country appears to be all about freedom, we must wonder who is truly free. It seems to me that the only ones free are the vile that run rampant. Who really is the Statue of Liberty, as seen with its chain broken off its foot? With my eyes wide open, I see a man who looks an awful lot like several paintings I’ve seen depicting Satan. History is not what we’ve been told. I concur with the captives of Babylon and wait patiently for the vengeance on those who claim we have freedom while continuing to press us down with heavy weights. 

To end this devotional on a positive note, we look to God for our freedom and find it within ourselves through the comfort of the Holy Spirit, who lifts our countenance and reminds us of the goodness of God’s grace. Find your freedom in Jesus, who sets us free from all the hostility of this world and leads us into the promised land of eternal life with him as King and conqueror over all evil.