Never forget

"Then they believed His words; they sang His praise.

But they soon forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel….

They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt.”

-Psalm 106:12-13, 21

           

This Psalm speaks of the goodness of God, specifically how He protected and provided for His people, Israel, in the desert.  This Psalm praises God’s grace, mercy, patience and understanding toward His people while also accounting their depravity and arrogant forgetfulness of Him and His mighty works.  The Psalter (writer of the Psalm) recounts how God’s “steadfast love endures forever” (v.1) and how there is great hope, even the sense of a guarantee, that God would save His people from their future troubles and beyond (v.4-5). 

Riddled throughout this psalm of praise and remembrance of God’s great works, the people are steeped in a history of sin, rebellion and forgetfulness.  The Psalter laments, “Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness” (v.6) and those same leaders “did not consider Your wondrous works.” (v.7)  How quick to forget they were!

This got me to thinking about us as the Church and as individual Christians today – how quick are we to forget the wondrous works of God in our lives?  How quick are we to forget His promises?  How quick are we to forget Him in general?  We go about our days, many times not thinking twice about Him or His Word or our Savior.  He may be an afterthought to us most days; we may not even acknowledge Him until our heads hit the pillow for a quick prayer we may fall asleep in or when we sit down for a meal, and do we even acknowledge Him and remember His works even then?

There’s lots of hashtag movements and ‘awakenings’, for lack of a better word, happening in our culture today.  What if we had one of our own in the Church and in our own lives as Christians?  What if we had a never forget type of movement where we purposed in our lives and in our Church circles to never forget the “wondrous works” of our Lord?

Never forget.