Show Don't Tell: Psalm 114

Instead of saying "God showed power in the exodus," watch creation panic. Eight verses of pure poetry—no prayer, no petition. "When Israel came out of Egypt, Jacob from a people of foreign tongue, Judah became God's sanctuary, Israel his dominion." People as sanctuary—God dwelling among them. "The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back; the mountains leaped like rams, the hills like lambs." Sea fleeing, river reversing, mountains jumping like frightened livestock. Creation terrified. "Why was it, sea, that you fled? Why, Jordan, did you turn back? Why, mountains, did you leap like rams, you hills, like lambs?" The question mocking creation's fear. "Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water." Rock becoming water—the final impossibility. Creation responding to Creator's presence.