Psalm 107
Now we have encountered a series of Psalms that all revolve around the same concept, you must remember your past, more specifically you must remember how God has interacted with your past. There is a saying that 'life must be lived forward but it can only be understood backwards', I'm not sure if it is completely true, but there is a lot of truth to it in regards to seeing the intersections between our life and God. So often it is difficult to see how God is working in the current moment, but when we look back we can see all the times that God was there for us and helped us through. It goes back to that Footprints poem, we might not always feel the times that God is carrying us, but there are times that God is carrying us none-the-less.
At the same time it doesn't do us a lot of good to dwell on the mistakes of our past, if we do that we may well just live this moment continually in the guilt of previous ones. The Bible says that God literally forgets our sins, the least we can do is try to do the same.
There is a line that is repeated throughout the Psalm that the New King James Version translates "Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, And for His wonderful works to the children of men!" It is that which we need to hold on from the past, God's goodness and God's wonderful works to all of us, not our sins, not our pains, not our failings, but rather God's goodness to us in light of our sins, our pains, our failings. It is of utmost importance to remember that no matter what we have done, where we have gone, or who we have been that God is still good to us.
+ How has God been good to you in the past year?
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