S--Psalm 106
O--King David is now looking to the sins of the past and asking for corporate forgiveness. He rehashes incidents of great sinfulness that mar the history of Israel, and how God was STILL faithful. David recalls how God delivered his ancestors from slavery, only for them to rebel almost immediately. God brought them to the other side of the Red Sea, where they believed and praise His Name, but soon they forgot. He recounts stories from Exodus 14, Exodus 15, Numbers 11, Numbers 16, Deuteronomy 11, Numbers 16, Numbers 20, Numbers 25, to name a few. Their sins ranged from complaining to idol worship to breaking covenant with God to forgetting about God completely. Many times God delivered them, only for them to be rebellious on purpose. King David cries out to God to forgive them for their past sins and to save them from their present sins and to protect them from future temptation to sin. He ends the song by adoring the Lord on bended knee, calling Him by His title of the God of Israel, who lives forever.
A--This chapter changes me by guiding me to remember that corporate sin is serious to God and should bring me to a place of grief and repentance for a people not wholly following the Lord. King David accepted the weight of the sins of the past and the present. But he wasn't willing to live there. David asked God to remember him when He blessed and saved the people, so he could once again bask in their beautiful inheritance. My heart is changed in verse 8 "Yet He saved them for His Name's Sake, that He might make known His
Mighty Power!" (emphasis mine, I couldn't help it 😍)
As we pass through this time of unrest in America, I pray that we can acknowledge the past willful sins of our nation and grieve and ask forgiveness from the only One who can grant relief. But I also pray that we can move forward as the spiritual children of the New Covenant--the ones who have been redeemed by the blood of Christ Jesus, the church--to bring about news of a forgiving, delivering, redeeming, reconciling God.
K--Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, the God of America, the God of Illinois, the God of His Church, the God of my family, the God of my heart, from everlasting to everlasting. And let all the people say "Amen!" Praise the Lord!
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