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What is the remedy?
REMEMBER (vs. 10-11) "the works of the LORD..."
MEDITATE (vs.12) "also of all thy work,"
TALK (vs.12) "of thy doings."
The Psalmist repeated over and over the phrase, "For the LORD is Good."
And God, through the Psalmist, asks us to join him--"Let the redeemed of
the Lord say so." Do we remember the landmarks in our lives--those times
when our God did great and mighty things for us? And do we talk of His doings?
Or do we live complaining about life and our lot in it--by our words or our
actions?
I believe America is apathetic because this generation, and the previous two
or three, stopped remembering and proclaiming the goodness of God and His salvation.
Consequently, America has almost lost all thought of God. When I was in high
school in the mid-sixties, almost everyone that I knew went to church somewhere.
America had a God-consciousness. However, I believe that too many Christians
lost their saltiness...and salt makes people thirsty for the God we have stopped
enthusiastically talking about. Are people thirsty for the God we are supposed
to be remembering and proclaiming as being good?
We are not only to talk about the works of the Lord but the Bible says we are
also to be "boasting" Christians!
Psa 34:2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof,
and be glad.
Psa 44:8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
In the Strong's Concordance the word boast means: praise, glory, celebrate,
to shine, to flash forth light....As I sat and thought about these definitions,
I better understood how we are to be salty Christians. People around us would
be thirsty from our saltiness if we were truly praising God, giving God the
glory due Him, celebrating the Lord, shining with His love, and flashing forth
the light (Jesus is the light) every time we had the slightest opening to do
so...flashing forth that light as second nature in every circumstance of life.
And God gives us a reason for doing so:
Psa 78:4 We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation
to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that
he hath done.
Psa 78:5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
Psa 78:6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which
should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
Psa 78:7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of
God, but keep his commandments:
Psa 78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation;
a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast
with God.
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