Psalm 105:1-4 is an exhortation to the people under the Old Covenant:
1 O give thanks unto the Lord, call upon His name, make known His doings among the peoples! 2 Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; meditate on and talk of all His marvelous deeds and devoutly praise them. 3 Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those rejoice who seek and require the Lord [as their indispensable necessity]. 4 Seek, inquire of and for the Lord, and crave Him and His strength (His might and inflexibility to temptation); seek and require His face and His presence [continually] evermore.
IF the Jewish people would have obeyed these commands, they would never have fallen into unbelief and would not have been exiled for forgetting the God of the Covenant! Verses 7-11 tell us just how important this Covenant was to the One, True, Most High, Living, Almighty God of the Bible!
7 He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth. 8 He is [earnestly] mindful of His covenant and forever it is imprinted on His heart, the word which He commanded and established to a thousand generations, 9 The covenant which He made with Abraham, and His sworn promise to Isaac, 10 Which He confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant, 11 Saying, Unto you will I give the land of Canaan as your measured portion, possession, and inheritance.
HE will never break Covenant! WE have an even better Covenant that is based on better promises than they had! Hebrews 8:6:
6 But as it now is, He [Christ] has acquired a [priestly] ministry which is as much superior and more excellent [than the old] as the covenant (the agreement) of which He is the Mediator (the Arbiter, Agent) is superior and more excellent, [because] it is enacted and rests upon more important (sublimer, higher, and nobler) promises.
If THEY were expected to rejoice, give thanks, and to remember their Covenant, HOW MUCH MORE should we! Make sure that YOU are spending some time every day in praise, thanksgiving and worship for WHO He is, WHAT He's done, and what He has PROMISED to do for those who will believe and receive! AMEN! Here is a great place to start! Hillsong with "Go"!
Shalom in Him!
