Tag: thankful hearts

Our ancestors in Egypt did not grasp
the significance of your wondrous works
or remember your many acts of faithful love… (Psalm 106:7)

I wonder how often those words describe us. We don’t grasp the significance of God’s wondrous work of salvation, the faithful love he showed at the cross.

Instead, we forget all he has done for us. (13a)

Instead of seeking his counsel, we follow our own. (13b)

We crave the sinful things of our old life. (14a) 

We test God, questioning whether he is really with us or not. (14b)

We despise the good things he has given us, and question his promises. (24)

We grumble against him and do not listen to him. (25)

We adopt the ways of our culture, while rejecting what God has said. (35)

The gods our culture follows become snares to us and we serve them. (36)

 We defile ourselves with our actions and act unfaithfully to God. (39)

And yet, despite all that, when we repent, we find grace. 

As Moses and Phinehas stood in the gap and interceded for the people when they sinned, so Jesus does for us. (23, 30)

Let us never take that grace for granted. Let us never take Jesus and what he suffered for us for granted. 

Rather let us always keep hearts full of thanksgiving and praise, singing,

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting. (48)