Remember God
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We start a new series as we begin the New Year.
As I get older I find it hard to remember certain things. Guilty of being forgetful!
God knows this about us and several times in scripture he tells us to remember!
That is the title of this series, Remember.
We start with we are to Remember God!
Chair Bible pg. 393
1 My voice rises to God, and I will cry aloud; My voice rises to God, and He will listen to me.
2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; In the night my hand was stretched out and did not grow weary; My soul refused to be comforted.
3 When I remember God, then I am restless; When I sigh, then my spirit feels weak. Selah
4 You have held my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
5 I have considered the days of old, The years of long ago.
6 I will remember my song in the night; I will meditate with my heart, And my spirit ponders:
7 Will the Lord reject forever? And will He never be favorable again?
8 Has His favor ceased forever? Has His promise come to an end forever?
9 Has God forgotten to be gracious, Or has He in anger withdrawn His compassion? Selah
10 Then I said, “It is my grief, That the right hand of the Most High has changed.”
Are you ready for the message God has for us?
Cool let’s dig in!
Where is God?
Where is God?
This is an implied question in the Psalm we just read. The Psalmist was in a state of grief, and was asking about where God is in this time!
Verses 7-9
Ever ponder that yourself? Ever ask in a difficult season, where is God?
Those are times where it is difficult to remember God.
There was a season in my own life when I lived my way and forgot about God.
Day after day where there was no thought of God!
Then my Grandpa, my dad’s dad died suddenly - develop
It was hard I had just started to know him better, why?
I went to his funeral and God revealed Himself again to me in the passages that were read that day!
Sometimes it is our grief that leads us back to God.
That seems to have happened to the Psalmist.
It may be in times like these when we are not the only ones asking
People may ask us, Where is your God?
People may ask us, Where is your God?
1 As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for You, God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
4 I remember these things and pour out my soul within me. For I used to go over with the multitude and walk them to the house of God, With a voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude celebrating a festival.
5 Why are you in despair, my soul? And why are you restless within me? Wait for God, for I will again praise Him For the help of His presence, my God.
6 My soul is in despair within me; Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have passed over me.
8 The Lord will send His goodness in the daytime; And His song will be with me in the night, A prayer to the God of my life.
9 I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10 As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries taunt me, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
11 Why are you in despair, my soul? And why are you restless within me? Wait for God, for I will again praise Him For the help of His presence, my God.
There are people who when we are in those dark seasons, in dispare, in grief, the say “where is your God now!”
To the people of the world this can be a difficult question to answer.
Are we prepared to answer?
We can’t see or touch Him!
We go on faith, Hebrews 11:1
1 Now faith is the certainty of things hoped for, a proof of things not seen.
People, don’t like that, they find it easier to believe in what they see, so for some science is their god.
Our society has done a great job in removing God from almost every aspect of secular life.
Without God, without His word our ability to grasp reality, to understand morality, to even consider good verses evil is gone.
This is a principle of Ecclesiastes 10:15
15 The labor of a fool makes him so weary that he does not even know how to go to a city.
The word for fool here means one who lacks good judgement, a stupid fellow.
Is that not what we see in society today?
They can’t even grasp reality! Nothing makes sense!
In the book The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Karamazov, the author’s symbol for the scientific, rational, Western outlook, states, "'But what will become of men then?' I asked him, 'without God and immortal life? All things are permitted then, they can do what they like?'"
The book of Judges is a great case study in a society with no God.
6 In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
1 In those days there was no king of Israel; and in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking an inheritance for themselves to live in, for until that day an inheritance had not been allotted to them as a possession among the tribes of Israel.
25 In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Three times we are reminded that there was to King, this implies that even God was not their King.
God told Samuel, 1 Samuel 8:7
7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people regarding all that they say to you, because they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being King over them.
The books of Judges and 1 Samuel recount a time when Israel as society did what they wanted, they did not remember God.
When they cried out for a king, they did not remember God; they rejected Him as their king.
7 Lift up your heads, you gates, And be lifted up, you ancient doors, That the King of glory may come in!
8 Who is the King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, you gates, And lift them up, you ancient doors, That the King of glory may come in!
10 Who is this King of glory? The Lord of armies, He is the King of glory. Selah
When we don’t remember God, then who is our God?
The God of self
The God of self
When a person does not remember God then self becomes their God.
We as a society have done just what Israel did in the time of Judges.
Without God man makes himself God.
How did that work out for the Pharaoh of Moses day?
How did that work for Nebuchadnezzer - Daniel 4:30-36
How long will our society last if we refuse to put God back on the altar of our nation?
We need to remember God because , we are not God!
39 ‘See now that I, I am He, And there is no god besides Me; It is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded and it is I who heal, And there is no one who can save anyone from My hand.
9 “Remember the former things long past, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me,
10 Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which have not been done, Saying, ‘My plan will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’;
11 Calling a bird of prey from the east, The man of My purpose from a distant country. Truly I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, I will certainly do it.
This is what we need to remember!
Remember that God alone is God! Not us, not anything else we can imagine or make!
Conclusion:
Why does the Bible tell us to remember God?
Without Him absolutely nothing makes sense! Anything goes and life is ultimately hopeless!
Is that the kids of life people really want?
As a society we need to remember Him again before it is to late, our time is not up, yet!
We need to remember - We have no power
2 Corinthians 4:7
7 But we have this treasure in earthen containers, so that the extraordinary greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;
We have no wisdom
5 so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of mankind, but on the power of God.
Where is our God?
He is in the times of joy, the deepest sorrow, when walk through the valley of the shadow of death, when our en is surround us, when cannot stand on our own, He is always everywhere!
He is everywhere! Always present, all knowing, all powerful!
Beside Him there is no other!
Are being a God to yourself? Do you want to put God in His rightful place? The altars are open to you.
let us pray together
Song - How Great is Our God!