For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
Psalm 105 belongs with Psalm 106 as the record of Israel's experience. It calls attention to the goodness, mercy, and love of God. All who claim to be God's children are to carefully consider this remembering and to appreciate that goodness, mercy, and love.
God remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant, and on that account He delivered Israel. He brought forth His people with joy and His chosen with gladness out of Egypt. During the forty years of wilderness wandering this remembering shaped His dealing with them, for as a man chastens his son so He chastened them to humble them and to prove them to know what was in their heart whether they would keep His commandments. He found them in desert land and waste howling wilderness, led them about, instructed them, kept them as the apple of His eye, and alone led them with no strange god with them, as an eagle stirs its nest and bears its young on its wings.
The deliverance continued in giving them the lands of the heathen and the labor of the peoples as an inheritance. This was given so that they might observe His statutes and keep His laws. As part of Israel's experience this provides lessons of warning and instruction that God's people in the last days need to study, especially.
God remembers His holy promise and fulfills it to His people. His pledged word stands sure as personal strength and as front guard and rearward, with all heaven pledged to help and strengthen. This promise is to be taken into individual experience by taking God at His word and holding fast to Him. Discouragement and distrust are to be refused, prayer is to ascend, and faith is to increase rather than diminish. The Lord is to be thanked for His Word as a stronghold, thanks are to be given because He is good and His mercy endures forever, and He is to be praised for His goodness and wonderful works to the children of men.
Psalm 105 belongs with Psalm 106 as the record of Israel's experience. It calls attention to the goodness, mercy, and love of God. All who claim to be God's children are to carefully consider this remembering and to appreciate that goodness, mercy, and love.
God remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant, and on that account He delivered Israel. He brought forth His people with joy and His chosen with gladness out of Egypt. During the forty years of wilderness wandering this remembering shaped His dealing with them, for as a man chastens his son so He chastened them to humble them and to prove them to know what was in their heart whether they would keep His commandments. He found them in desert land and waste howling wilderness, led them about, instructed them, kept them as the apple of His eye, and alone led them with no strange god with them, as an eagle stirs its nest and bears its young on its wings.
The deliverance continued in giving them the lands of the heathen and the labor of the peoples as an inheritance. This was given so that they might observe His statutes and keep His laws. As part of Israel's experience this provides lessons of warning and instruction that God's people in the last days need to study, especially.
God remembers His holy promise and fulfills it to His people. His pledged word stands sure as personal strength and as front guard and rearward, with all heaven pledged to help and strengthen. This promise is to be taken into individual experience by taking God at His word and holding fast to Him. Discouragement and distrust are to be refused, prayer is to ascend, and faith is to increase rather than diminish. The Lord is to be thanked for His Word as a stronghold, thanks are to be given because He is good and His mercy endures forever, and He is to be praised for His goodness and wonderful works to the children of men.