THE REMEMBRANCE OF HIS TESTIMONIES

January 3

THE REMEMBRANCE OF HIS TESTIMONIES

Psalms119:2-4 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. (3) They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. (4) Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.

When God asked the children of Israel for their exclusive worship, He first reminded them that He was the God that had done for them more than anyone else could have ever done. In essence, He gave them His ‘credentials’, His ‘resume’ (Exodus 20;2-3).

We may not be one of those who crossed the Red Sea as on dry land. We may not be either one of those who ate manna, food out of God’s hand in the desert; who drank water out of a rock. We may not have witnessed the leading cloud by day, and the enlightening fire by night. We may not have trembled at foot of the fiery mount of God, nor at the depth of His judgments against those who arrogantly defied Him. We are witnesses to greater than that--we are witnesses to something about which even the angels hush. We are witnesses to our own redemption and salvation, not from Egypt, but from the clutches of the devil who would have us ensnared and enslaved in the fear of death. We are witnesses to coming out of death and into life. We are witnesses to, and have followed the only one who can, and delivers us from the ‘pharaonic’ oppression of addiction, sickness, wickedness and from all the other fruits of hell: the Lord Jesus-Christ. He is the One who faithfully takes care of supplying our needs even in time of ‘desertic’ penury. He helps us fight our own demons of doubt and fear and takes us by the hand into the Promised Land of sabbatical fellowship.

These are our testimonies. We must seek and remember them daily for thereby we are blessed. We must not forget them, but we must continually bring them back to our mind; this helps us do no iniquity and to walk in His ways. This is the key to Godly purity: to meditate on His testimonies, that is why He commanded us to keep them diligently.

Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.