# 52 2019 Dev. Psalm 78:5-7. Faith! Read all of Ps.78. The purpose of these devotionals is to draw Gremar and I closer to God and grow spiritually by applying His Word to our daily living. All passages are taken from the NIV.
Ps. 78:5-7 “He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel,
which he commanded our ancestors to teach their children,6 so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.7 Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.”
Psalm 78 is the last Psalm of this series and it has the most verses. The length of it is beyond the scope of our short devotionals. However, we will give a short overview. The Psalm is a warning to God’s people to keep His covenant, to be faithful, as He is faithful, to continue to trust in God’s care and goodness to us, His people. The Psalm begins with a long introduction vs 1-8. It probably was written during the time of the split of the kingdom into the Northern and Southern Kingdoms after the reign of Solomon.
Vs.9-55 is a long history of the escape from Egypt by God’s power and care for His people; the people’s rebellion while in the wilderness and God’s punishments and many restorations of His people. Even so, God is faithful and merciful, He brings His people into the promised land and established them during the reign of king David and Solomon.
Vs. 56-64 continues the history after entering the land and it is much of the same rebellion but then God’s punishments are harsher and more extensive.
Vs.65-78 God relents, “He remembered that they were but flesh,” God rejected Joseph and Ephraim and chose the tribe of Judah. “God chose David His servant”. We already see that in Jacob’s blessings of his sons, Judah is the lion who will always reign. This is what we celebrate at Christmas; Jesus is the son of David and He is the Son of God, Immanuel. God with us! Praise God! But that is also part of this Psalm because we are privileged to be on this side of the history of God’s people, yet the warning in this Psalm is for us as well.
We are in the covenant of Jesus’s blood, He died for our sins, forgave us and re-created us Spiritually. We have the responsibility to live the Gospel and as the Psalmist writes in the introduction God “commanded our ancestors to teach their children,6 so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.7 Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.” Christ must be visible in our lives for all to see, especially our children. Amen?
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