Remember Your mercy, O Lord, and Your steadfast love
For they have been from old.
Remember not the sins from my youth or my transgressions
According to your steadfast love,
Remember me for the sake of Your goodness, O Lord!
Psalms 25:6-7
This is David’s prayer. He had searched in his heart and saw that there was no one who could help him at that hour—only Sovereign God. He cried out for remembrance.
To be remembered is ‘to be thought of.’ And you can only remember someone you have had interaction with at one time or the other. For one to remember you it means there has been a relationship between the two of you. Why did David call on God to remember him? David went to a Someone he was comfortable with trusting.
Even in this physical world we live in, sometimes you meet someone who says they know you, but you don’t quite remember them…even when they try to remind you of where the two of you met. Perhaps you feel confused. This is the same way with the spiritual realm. God cannot remember you if you have never been in a relationship with Him. He will only remember you if you have interacted with Him and that your relationship is strong and operating at the highest level. David took courage to call for remembrance for he knew His Friend, God, would come to his rescue.
How many of us can boldly come to God today asking Him to remember us without feeling perhaps guilty in one way or another because of unconfessed sin or repeated sins? Sins hinder us from the hand of God, brethren.
Nehemiah also cried unto God for remembrance.
Remember me, O my God, concerning this,
and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done
for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.
Nehemiah 13:14
We also see David in Psalm 106:4 calling on God for remembrance.
Remember me, O Lord, with the favor Thou beareth unto thy people,
O visit me with Thy salvation.
O Lord, Thou knowest: remember me, and visit me,
and revenge me of my persecutors;
take me not away in Thy longsuffering:
know that for Thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
Jeremiah 15:15
And he said unto Jesus “Lord, remember me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom.”
Luke 23:42
Brethren, for us to be remembered of God it means we are in a good relationship with Him. Let us work out our relationship with God. We need Him to remember us in all areas of our lives.
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Dear Heavenly Father, I thank You for You are the Lord…full of steadfast love. Great is Thy faithfulness. We need Your grace, Lord, to be in good relationship with You. Help us in our shortfalls, build us with Your love, create in us a clean heart, Lord. This we ask in Jesus’ name, Amen!
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Ann, I’m so thankful that in God’s goodness He remembers, thinks of, me. And yet because of His mercy and steadfast love, He chooses not to remember my sins. As you said, that is because of our relationship. I don’t want any sin to hinder that, and so I am praying your prayer today. “Yes, Lord, ‘Help me/us in my/our shortfalls, build me/us with Your love, create in me/us a clean heart.’ Amen.” <3
such a good point, ann, ‘And you can only remember someone you have had interaction with at one time or the other. For one to remember you it means there has been a relationship between the two of you.’ so very, very thankful that God remembers me! <3
Thank you, Ann, for these great Scriptures and this great message. Lots of Truth to cling to.