Psalm 105:1-5 - Give
thanks to the LORD and proclaim his greatness. Let the whole world know what he
has done. Sing to him; yes, sing his
praises. Tell everyone about his miracles. Exult in his holy name; O worshipers of the
LORD, rejoice! Search for the LORD and
for his strength, and keep on searching. Think of the wonderful works he has
done, the miracles and the judgments he handed down,
David started out thanking God and proclaiming to anyone who
was close enough to hear him that God was great. He told them to search for God…and
keep on searching till they found him. He
told them to think about all the great things he had done to give them strength
while they searched. Then he reminded them of the great history of their people…starting
with the moment God made his great promise to Abraham…through the whole history
of 1,000 generations of Israelites.
Their history is our history…it became our history the
moment that Jesus offered salvation to all people with his great act of love on
the cross. I have no clue how many
generations that is now…nor do I have a handle on the complete history of the
miracles he has done for all the people of the world…but if it is anything
close to the miracles that I have seen just in my small section of the world ….it
would take volumes and volumes and more volumes to record it all on paper.
We need to be like that widow that searched her house for a
lost coin in Luke 15. She turned things
upside down….and did not stop till she found it. That chapter also records two other parables that
Jesus used to tell us that we need to be willing to leave the familiar routines
we have built for ourselves and go out and look for the lost. If we do then we will experience the joy of
that father…who watched his wayward son return home. But we will only experience that joy if we
keep searching for God…and never believe that we have found enough of him. That
joy truly becomes complete as we begin to share our history of God with
others.
Father…thank you for the reminder that I have not found all
of you this morning. Forgive me for ever
thinking that I have enough of you in my life…and help me to begin a serious
search for you once more. Don’t let me stop searching for you till I have found
the joy that comes from serving you completely.
Give me opportunities to share what you have done in my life…so I can
add to the great stories of what you did for the Israelites so long ago. Amen.
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