Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Psalms 78:6-7 -- On Not Learning the Hard Way

"That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:"
Psalms 78:6-7


I really like these verses because they are basically talking about the reason that we have scriptures.  It's a way of reminding us, and jogging our collective memory.  And, given our propensity to forget even things that have happened to us personally, it is a very good thing that we have some.

The challenge really is, now that we have them, whether we will use them.  We have an unfortunate tendency to willfully forget things that we don't really want to deal with, and then later to claim that we never really knew.  Unsurprisingly, God can see through even our little self-deceptions, so that won't really be a good long-term strategy. :)  Instead, maybe we could try jumping in and reading or listening to them... pulling God's words into our lives, so that we may gain the benefits of lessons first taught to others, which really just means that we don't have to learn them the hard way, if we will take the time to listen.

Today, let's drink in God's word, and set our hope in God.  Let's not forget, but work to keep his commandments.

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