The Works of the Lord

“Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High. I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old. I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.” Psalm 77:7-12

The Israelites had a rich treasure of miraculous interventions which the Lord God made on their behalf. He chastened Pharaoh with the plagues of Egypt. He parted the Red Sea, and His people walked across on dry ground. He fed them with manna in the wilderness and brought forth water from the rock. He stopped the Jordan River so that the people walked across a dry riverbed. He knocked down the walls of Jericho and drove out the Canaanites before His people in one battle after another. The list of God’s great works on behalf of His people goes on and on. It seems that the writer of this psalm was experiencing some sort of infirmity. His suffering was so intense that he found his faith beginning to waver. In his hour of despair, he made a choice. He said, “I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High,” and, “I will meditate also of all thy work.” When life becomes difficult, it is easy to be overwhelmed with the circumstances. But the darkest hour is the very time that we need to remember the good things that God has done for us and share those victories with others.