But They Forgot....

“They forgot what He had done, the wonderful works He had shown them” ~Ps. 78:11

The psalmist laments about his people and their short memories.  He cries out about the inability for his people to trust God despite His repeated acts of faithfulness.  In Psalm 78 he sets out to remind them of God’s shepherding with a pure heart and how He had guided them with skillful hands.  He reminded them of being freed from slavery in Egypt.  How God split the sea and led them with a cloud by day and by a fiery light at night.  He fed them and gave them water from the rock in the wilderness.  The people continued in their sin and God rebuked them and yet provided for them.  He gave them meat to eat and manna, the gain from heaven, people ate the bread of angels.  All of needs of the people God met in the desert, the place of nothingness.   Yet the people continued to sin.  God remembered that they were only flesh, a wind that passes and returns no more.  In His compassion for His name sake He drove the nations out before them and settled them in the holy land.  

How easily we still forget.  God leads us through our lives and cares for us in ways we cannot understand and yet we still ignore Him or forget what He has done all together.  When tragedy reaches our shores we cry out and ask, “Where is God!”, yet He has never left us.  In His grace and mercy He sees us through our difficult times with a cloud of friends and family by day and through the fiery light of His love in the darkest parts of night.  He never leaves or forsakes us; He is always with us, always loves us and is always faithful to His word.  He does this despite our short memories.  Today I pray you would take a moment and pause.  Think about all the times God has been with you and give thanks.  Give thanks to God who provides for us and meets our daily needs.  Give thanks to a God who shows you grace when you don’t deserve it and forgives us our many sins against Him.  God who sent His Son Jesus Christ, who loved us and died for us and was buried and rose again.  

Thank you Lord for today and for my many yesterdays you provided. Lord I pray that you would bring to my memory the many blessing you have showered me with and that I would live for the glory of your name!  Amen.