Judges 5:1

Judges 5:1 says, Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,  Deborah and Barak sang praises to God that day.  We should always sing praises to God as Christians today.  Verse two adds, Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.  They sang praise to God for delivering Israel when they willingly offered themselves.  God today will deliver anyone from the power and penalty of sin if we only offer ourself to Him by putting our faith in Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and Lord.  Verse three continues, Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.  They continued their song of praise by calling on other kings and princes to hear it.  We today need to praise God to all the world, even to those who may be in power and be attempting to destroy us, as many kings and princes were attempting to destroy Israel in that day.  Verse four states, LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. They sang of God's power over the earth itself, as He made the earth tremble and clouds to drop rain.  God struck terror in His enemies by simply controlling the forces of nature, and He can still do so today if He chooses to.  Verse five adds, The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.  Deborah and Barak sang of God melting the mountains, and we are told if we have the faith of a mustard seed that we can move mountains, and we should praise God for this.  Verse six continues, In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.  They then sang of the days from Shamgar to the days of Jael when the people of Israel were afraid to travel the roads.  We today have been set free forever by the power of God through the death of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ,the cross and His resurrection from the dead to defeat the power of sin and death forever.  We should boldly proclaim this to world today if we have accepted Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and Lord.  Verse seven says, The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.  Deborah then spoke of being raised up as a deliverer, of Judge of Israel herself.  We today have no other Savior and Deliverer but Jesus Christ Himself, and we need to give all the praise and glory to Him.  Verse eight adds, They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?  Deborah said that even though there were forty thousand Israelites there, they had either been unable or unwilling to go to war because they were putting their faith in other gods.  If we are going to win the war against sin and evil in the world today, it will be because of our faith in God and not because of our numbers or weapons.