Psalms 78:7 “That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:”
The Psalmist strongly emphasizes the necessity of teaching the Word Of God, the Commandments of God to each successive generation (Psalm 78:1-6). We greatly imperil ourselves when we let the Word of God slip away from us; for, “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” (Psalms 9:17) and “Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.” (Psalms 50:22)! In this context, the word “hell” refers to a most dreadful destruction that is accompanied by awful sufferings and miseries. In our Country, right now, we are getting a sample of what happens to a nation that forgets God, our large cities are being hellishly torn “in pieces”, hateful corruption is eroding our peace and liberty, and there is widespread suffering across our Country. There are those who do not have the Spirit of God in them, do not lovingly know the Lord, and do not have and have never had any desire what so ever to “hope in God”. But, there are those Children of God who “forget the works of God” and “forget God”. Those who “forget” in this context, are those who allow themselves to be enticed by the excitement and glitter of worldly things and drawn away from worshipfully following the Lord. It is these forgetters that the Psalmist is addressing. Jeremiah writes to the forgetters, “If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.” (Jeremiah 4:1). The Lord spoke to the forgetters at “Sardis”, “Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.” (Revelation 3:2). Now is the time for the Children of God to pick up the Word of God, and prayerfully read it and to resolve that our “tongue shall speak of” The Lord’s “righteousness and of” His “praise all the day long” (Psalms 35:28) and “Go home to” our “friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for” us, “and hath had compassion on” us (Mark 5:19). Now is the time for us to go to and be a member of and an active part of the Lord’s Church, “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.” (Hebrews 10:25). Let us “not forget the works of God”; His “works” that saved us from our sins (Matthew 1:21), His “works” that built His Church-Kingdom (Matthew 16:18), His “works” that secured our Eternal Home in Heaven (Ephesians 1:11), and His “works” that provide us a blessed “rest” in this present life (Matthew 11:28)!