Thirty Days of Thanksgiving in Psalms Day 16

Psalm 106:1 – Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

God is good. Webster’s 1828 dictionary has over 40 definitions of the word “good.” Basically, God is perfect, and will act perfectly every single time.

Even in His judgment, we can see His goodness. That’s what Chapter 106 is about.

Repeatedly, God’s people forgot His goodness and works, and disobeyed God. They even learned the ways of the heathen around them, began to worship idols and ultimately began sacrificing their children to the idols.

Verse 40 says that God’s wrath (violent anger) was kindled against them so much that He abhorred (to hate extremely; to despise) His own people.

That’s when He let the heathen capture them, kill and torture them, raze their cities and destroy their temples.

But verse 44 tells us that He always heard their cry!

In verse 45 we find: “And he remembered FOR THEM his covenant, and REPENTED according to the multitude of HIS mercies.”

He literally had to remember His covenant FOR THEM, and feel sorrow and remorse FOR THEM when they were too far gone in their sin to remember or care!

It’s important to note that the covenant God made with Israel wasn’t sworn to Abraham. God put Abraham into a deep sleep while the covenant was being made. Hebrews 6:13 tells us “For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,”

It wasn’t up to Abraham and his seed to keep their side of the covenant. It was up to God to keep the covenant with God. He swore to Himself to keep the covenant.

What a precious thought!

When I am so absorbed with my sin that I don’t even remember that I’m His, and when I forget the pit that He dug me out of, He will remember FOR ME and hear me when I cry out for help. He will be sorrowful FOR ME. He will save me according to the multitude of HIS mercies.

There will be sowing to do for my sin, but over and over again God provides the means of forgiveness and reconciliation for me.

That alone is enough to follow the instructions in verse 1 and give thanks and praise to God for His goodness and enduring mercies!