Remembering...

Yesterday I was reading through Psalm 25, a favorite of mine, when these 2 verses caught my attention:

6 Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.

7 Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O LORD.

It's the word "remember" that got me and reminded me of Beth Moore's Believing God study. In week 7 she leads us through several passages that say "...but God remembered (name)"... Then Beth draws a direct correlation between God remembering and God acting... She says that remembering is not as narrow as we define it and she shows in Scripture that when God remembers...God acts...

SO that got me to thinking about the verses from Psalm 25... The psalmist is asking God to remember His great mercy and love...and act on THAT as opposed to remembering the sins of his youth and his rebellious ways...and acting on THOSE! He asks the LORD to remember him according to the LORD's love...and he reminds the LORD that He is good...

I think this is a good prayer for me too. Do I want God to remember and then act on my sins and rebellious ways? No way! Because I know that my sins and rebellious ways earn me eternal death and separation form Him...but thanks be to God...

But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 15:57)

God can remember me through the finished work of Jesus Christ and act on that...which He does, by giving me the free gift of eternal life.

Thank You Jesus for being my Savior!
Praise Him with me and let Psalm 25:6-7 be your prayer today too!

If you want to know Jesus personally as your Savior, click on this link: http://proverbs31.gospelcom.net/knowHim.htm

MR