Psalm 106:7a

Psalm 106:7a

They gave no thought to Your miracles

We are now embarking on a very frustrating journey; the miraculous provision of the Lord God, as set out in Psalm 105, is now going to be contrasted with the ingratitude and rebellion of the Israelites who consistently kicked against Him and His laws. They chose to worship foreign gods on innumerable occasions and for almost every blessing on God’s part, they responded with an act of corporate treachery and rejection. We have to understand, of course, that they could only love and serve Him through human obedience and effort, there was no inner Holy Spirit to guide, protect and reassure them. 

The Psalm suggests, in this verse, that even the miraculous signs in Egypt were ignored and discounted by the Hebrew slaves. Indeed, when Moses first reported to them that the Lord God was to be their God, that He would redeem them, free them from the slavery of Egypt and bring them to the land that He had promised to their ancestors, “They did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labour.” Exodus 6:9. There is no evidence that the plagues that besieged the Egyptians led to the Israelites putting their faith in the living God, in truth they were protected from the worst of those plagues (Exodus 9:26) but true faith in their Redeemer was very much lacking. 

God was good to those people, He guarded and protected them in the midst of their suffering, He planned for their release, and He demonstrated His power over the Egyptians and their gods but, as we shall see, these signs were soon forgotten. We have to be so careful that we do not join in their unbelief. There are a thousand and one ways in which the Lord blesses us every day of our lives and yet many so-called believers give Him little thought and quickly forget His many kindnesses.Let’s constantly recall the miracles that we have witnessed lest we start to rebel against the One who accomplished them.

 

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