Psalm 105:1-11 (NIV)

¹Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name;

  make known among the nations what he has done.

²Sing to him, sing praise to him;

  tell of all his wonderful acts.

³Glory in his holy name;

  let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.

⁴Look to the Lord and his strength;

  seek his face always.

⁵Remember the wonders he has done,

  his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,

⁶you his servants, the descendants of Abraham,

  his chosen ones, the children of Jacob.

⁷He is the Lord our God;

  his judgments are in all the earth.

⁸He remembers his covenant forever,

  the promise he made, for a thousand generations,

⁹the covenant he made with Abraham,

  the oath he swore to Isaac.

¹⁰He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree,

  to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

¹¹“To you I will give the land of Canaan

  as the portion you will inherit.”

He remembers his covenant forever,

   the promise he made, for a thousand generations…

• Where are you today? (We always have to start where we’re at…)

• We remember, God remembers. (Genesis 28:15, Exodus 2:24, Psalm 25:6-7)

“Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.”– Henri Nouwen

• Awe: God of our story and God of the whole Story.

(Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 – “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed”)

“The Psalms invite us, first, to stand at the intersection of the different layers of time.” – N.T. Wright, The Case for the Psalms

AWE

“…Awe enables us to see the systems underlying the wonders of lifeand locate ourselves in relation to them.”

– Dacher Keltner (Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder, 246-247)