“Remember the nation you purchased long ago,
the people of your inheritance, whom you redeemed—
Mount Zion, where you dwelt.”
Psalm 74:2 (NIV)
As our grown children gather in our home, our hearts are warmed as we hear “remember that or remember this” as they take a short walk down memory lane. We make a mistake if we think that the psalmist is asking God to walk down memory lane when he implores and pleads with God to remember the nation he purchased. These 2 psalms read together give us a good sense of the desperate straits that true worshippers of God found themselves in during the time after the destruction of the temple of the Living God. The hope expressed in Psalm 73 comes to the psalmist as he enters the temple, but in Psalm 74 the temple is destroyed, and with that destruction goes the hope of the worshipper - EXCEPT - for the hope that God will remember the nation that he purchased. To ask God to remember the nation He purchased is to ask God to remember the price He paid for us, more than that to remember the cause – the motivation for the purchase to be made - and that motivation is God’s great covenant love for His people. To ask God to remember the people He redeemed is to ask God to turn His eyes on His beloved Son and to see us hidden in His Son. Make no mistake - to ask our God to remember us is to ask God to reach down into our life right now and glorify His Name through us.
Oh God remember us today, restore your church today!
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