Read Psalm
119:49-56
Does God need to be reminded about what he has said? This
stanza, where all the verses start with the Hebrew letter Zayin, makes it sound
that way. Sometimes amid troubling our circumstances we can feel that way. The
verses that stood out to me today in my devotions were verses 49-50,
“Remember your word to your servant,
in which you
have made me hope.
This is my comfort in my affliction,
that your
promise gives me life.”
When the psalmist asks God to remember the word of promise
that he had communicated, he is not suggesting that God had forgotten, or
needed to be reminded, but was taking a stand in faith. It was because he
trusted the word of the Lord that
he calls on the Lord to remember
it. The concept of remembering seems to have been used regularly in the sense
of “call it to mind and act upon it.” The psalmist was asking God to bring to
pass what had been promised. This is faith that prays. What has God said to us?
Trust him enough to ask him to bring it to fruition!
If we read a little further, hopefully, we see that the
psalmist also remembered and acted upon what he called to mind.
“I remember your name in the night, O Lord,
and keep your
law.” (v.55)
Tonight, as you think about the promises we have in Christ,
remember his name (his entire nature and character) and act on it by both obeying
what he has commanded and by trusting what he has promised—for life is the result
of his promises being fulfilled, in his name, on our behalf. Doing this is truly
a blessing! “Just Zayin!”
O Lord,
remember who you made me to be, and what you have called me to do. I cannot
accomplish it in my own strength. Let my heart be filled with songs of trust
and praise when I think of you and may you bring to harvest the seeds of
promise you have sown in my heart. Amen.
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