Psalm 106:4-23

 

September 6, 2022

 

Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people; help me when you save them, that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.  

 

Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.  Our fathers, when they were in Egypt,
did not consider your wondrous works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.  Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his mighty power.  He rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry, and he led them through the deep as through a desert.  So he saved them from the hand of the foe and redeemed them from the power of the enemy.  And the waters covered their adversaries; not one of them was left.  Then they believed his words; they sang his praise.   

 

But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.  But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert; he gave them what they asked, but sent a wasting disease among them.  When men in the camp were jealous of Moses and Aaron, the holy one of the Lord, the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.  Fire also broke out in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.  They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped a metal image.

They exchanged the glory of God or the image of an ox that eats grass. They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt, wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.  Therefore he said he would destroy them—had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

 

In verses 4-5, the Psalmist wants to see the nation turn back to God, and he will share in the gladness of the nation of the Chosen people of God.  In our day the people of God, and those who sit and listen to sermons each Sunday, go to Bible Studies and attend small groups, awake to the evil that is taking place in our nation.  Folks, we the people of Faith in a mighty God, who loves justice and hates evil,  are you asking the Lord to redeem and forgive the evil of the USA?  As a nation, we turn our back on God and seek the gods of wealth and power.  

 

Let me share a personal note; last night my blood pressure was 200-95-93 I called the doctor, and I had already done what he told me to do.  His next word was to not dwell on the blood pressure but to think happy thoughts.  Jan my bride had gone to bed and came in and prayed for me and then we got a hymn book and began to sing praises to our Lord.  Do you know that you cannot worry and praise God at the same time?  That is why I study God's word and pray that He will give Jan & me the ability to guide a young couple to live in victory.

 

Do you understand that if God allowed you and your family to be taken into a foreign land and at first you look to Him, but it reminds me of the time I walked out of the sunlight into a dark restaurant in Mexico and the group followed a person to our table?  My eyes became accustomed to the dark room and the people sitting all around us the longer I sat there.  A missionary we called pastor Joe, looked at me and said Young man when you came out of the bright light and into this dark room, you did not see anyone around us.  Well, young man, that is the way sin is, at first it is so dark, yet the longer you stay in it the easier it is to accept it.  Never have truer words been spoken!  The Church in the USA has allowed the darkness to creep into too much of its service, and some are teaching things God forbids.  Will you look to the word of God and seek His will for our nations?  And share the answer with those around you? 

 

Could it be that our nations like Israel were blessed with so much that we like them forgot all the blessings come from only God, and they stopped teaching their children the ways of God?  It is much like the many who take the blessing as a right and are looking not to God, but to the government to supply their needs.  Government is a terrible god, it takes from those who work hard and gives it to others with a loud voice, but it does not work.

 

As you read that last paragraph is that what is happening to the USA, and do we have a Moses that God will listen to, who stands in the breach for us?

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice