Psalm 106:47

Psalm 106:47

Save us, Lord our God.

This has been the heart cry of all exiled Jews, over the centuries. Time and again, having suffered the indignities and the heartbreak of separation from both God and their homeland, these people have cried out, “Save us, Lord our God, and gather us from the nations.” And every time that heart cry has been heard in heaven, the Lord has “remembered His covenant and out of His great love He has relented.” The past 80 years or more have been no different as these seemingly “accursed” people have heard the call to return to their land and to be gathered back into the safe arms of their God. Sadly, they still ignore Him and disobey Him, as we have seen. And sadly, the surrounding still nations hate them, and most of the rest of the world have little time for their safety or their right to exist. These factors alone declare to us all that there is something different about God’s chosen people, that behind the stories repeated in the media, is a deeper narrative that only those who know the Lord God can understand. The fact that He made His covenants with arguably the most difficult nation on earth tells us a huge amount about the depth of His love! Is this not our God saying, “If I can love these, can I not love you?” 

The verse before us today includes a promise or a contract, that if the Lord delivers His people, they will give thanks to His holy name and glory in His praise. So far that has not happened in modern Israel but as Paul says in Romans 11:25-26     “Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, and in this way all Israel will be saved.” 

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