Psalm 13

"But I trust in your unfailing love.  I will rejoice because you have rescued me.  I will sing 

to the Lord because he is good to me." vs. 5-6

How often do we look into the blessings of our past?   In my previous blog I mentioned that we rarely bring up the bad stuff in our past ... but how often do we look to His faithfulness in our past?    This is something that we don't do enough, and yet this is why David sings.

David sees God's handiwork in his past, and realizes that God has rescued him, and because of this he sings to the Lord because the Lord has been good to him.    Maybe you've had a crappy past, maybe life has seemed incredibly hard and tough for you.   Maybe that is what is driving your future, being reminded constantly about something that's happened to you.   It can be easy to dwell on our past mistakes, but what gets us through is holding on the Promises of God, and recalling His blessings to you in the past.

Scripture is filled with recollection of God's work in the lives of the Israelites.   The Passover feast is a reminder of God's deliverance of his people from the Egyptians.   We are also reminded in Church of Christ's work in our lives through the celebration of Communion.    When we loose sight of what God has done in our past, we lose Vision of what God can do in our lives in the future.   It's so important to keep track of God's faithfulness, and to thank him for it.