Tell It Again

One of the fun things about having a child in the house is the fact that stories do not get old. Any of my 3 children, when they were little, would want to watch the same video or hear the same story again and again. Kids, with a sense of wonder, do not seem to lose interest in the tale, no matter how often the tale is told.

 

I think that Scripture wants us to understand something of that kind of wonder. God shows us in his word that hearing the story repeatedly is good for our souls.

 

Psalm 105:5-7 – 

5 Remember the wondrous works that he has done,

his miracles, and the judgments he uttered,

6 O offspring of Abraham, his servant,

children of Jacob, his chosen ones!

7 He is the Lord our God;

his judgments are in all the earth.

 

Psalm 105 is one of a set of psalms where the writer wrote a song about the history of Israel. It is a longer psalm, and it comes off as a history lesson. It tells of God and his repeated covenant promise. It tells of how God preserved his people and passed the promise on. For those of us who are Christians, it shows our heritage through Israel as recipients of God’s ultimate promise to bless all nations through Jesus, the promised one descended from Abraham.

 

Why would they sing this? Why would God have people tell this story again and again? I would suggest, from reading the psalm, that it reminds us of God’s faithfulness.

 

Knowing that God has been faithful in the past gives you and me confidence of God’s faithfulness in the present and in the future. Life hurts. The world looks messed up. But God has always been faithful. God will continue to be faithful.

 

Look back over your own life. Where has god been faithful to you? Has the Lord provided for you? Has the Lord protected you? Has the Lord been gracious to you? If he has been faithful in your past, why doubt him in the future? Add to that the biblical tale. How powerful has God shown himself to be? How kind? How loving? How capable of preserving his own?

 

May we allow the past faithfulness of God to bolster our hope in the present. May we remember God’s faithfulness to his biblical promises. May we remember God’s faithfulness to us personally. May we remember and trust in the Lord.