Scripture Memory Team 2010 #18

I can not believe it is December 15th and the last Scripture Memory post for this year!  God has been so faithful again to love on me through His Word.  As I review my vereses, the theme that keeps coming up is knowing Him.  What a blessing it is to be able to have a relationship with the God of Heaven and Earth who reveals Himself to us--He wants to be known!  He has chosen us to know Him (Isaiah 43:10), we can know His love (Eph. 3:16-21), we can know what He reveals to us (Deut. 29:29), we know there will be an inheritance (Col. 3:23-24), John 17:3 even says that knowing Him is eternal life!  We know that our brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings and that God is the God of all grace (1 Peter 5:5-11).  We can't, however, know or imagine what He has prepared for us (1 Cor. 2:9-10)!  That blows my mind!  I love how the Message says this portion of 1 Corinthians 13 "...understanding will reach its limit.  We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete.  But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled."  Even still, "my determined purpose is that I may know Him, that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately aquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly." (Philippians 3:10).  Knowing Him restores me, and makes me strong, firm, and steadfast (1 Peter 5:5-11).

That 1 Peter 5:5-11 is the portion that I have been working on recently and that steadfast has echoed through my days.  Then I heard this verse on Michael W. Smith's Worship album and thought it would be a fitting verse to wrap up the year...

Psalm 57:7  My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and make music.

I don't know what your year has been like, but I have done a lot of stretching and growing this year.  At least it feels like it--I hope there has been growth!  When I read this verse in the context of the whole Psalm, I could relate in so many ways.  There are days that I'm not so steady, but I want to be steadfast, knowing my God, and praise Him because He is absolutely faithful!

This is the song that Psalm 57:7 introduces on the Worship album.

Forever

by Chris Tomlin

Give thanks to the Lord

Our God and King

His love endures forever

For He is good, He is above all things

His love endures forever

Sing praise, sing praise

With a mighty hand

and outstretched arm

His love endures forever

For the life that's been reborn

His love endures forever

Sing praise, sing praise

Sing praise, sing praise

Yeah

Forever God is faithful

Forever God is strong

Forever God is with us

Forever

Forever

From the rising to the setting sun

His love endures forever

By the grace of God

We will carry on

His love endures forever

Sing praise, sing praise

Sing praise, sing praise

Yeah

Forever God is faithful

Forever God is strong

Forever God is with us

Forever