Chosen
That I may see the benefit of Your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, that I may glory with Your inheritance. ~ Psalms 106:5
Did you know you were chosen? It’s true! We have all been chosen to be children of God, but not everyone steps into that miraculous benefit. Psalms 106 highlights God’s unwavering faithfulness to His people, even when they strayed. It’s a powerful reminder that His choosing us is based on His love and mercy, not on our behavior and performance.
The psalm describes the ways God’s chosen people, Israel, forgot His mighty works, rebelled, and turned to their own ways. Yet, time and time again, God delivered them. Verse 8 says, “Even so, He saved them—to defend the honor of His name and to demonstrate His mighty power.” This same faithfulness is available to us today through our Savior, Christ Jesus.
I remember a time in my own life when I didn’t fully understand who I was as a child of God. Like Israel, I lived unaware of the abundant blessings and purpose God had for my life. But just as God repeatedly called His people back to Him in Psalm 106, He patiently revealed His love, path, and plan for my life.
When I began to grasp the truth of being chosen, I started a journey of rejoicing in the gladness of His kingdom and glory in His inheritance (Psalm 106:5). That inheritance is not just eternal life but includes the blessings of His guidance, provision, and purpose for all of us here on Earth.
There are some practical things you can do to step into your inheritance as a child of the most High. Decide today to begin this journey of taking your place in the kingdom of heaven and walking out the purpose and design for your life. Getting on His path will lead you to the life of rich fulfilment and complete peace that He planned for you all along.
- Learn from Psalm 106: Reflect on the story of God’s chosen people in this psalm. It’s a reminder of our tendency to forget His faithfulness but also of His mercy and readiness to save us when we return to Him.
- Recognize God’s Mighty Works: Psalm 106 repeatedly points to God’s miraculous works. Take time to reflect on the ways God has worked in your life and rescued you along the way. Write them down and use them as reminders when doubts come.
- Walk in Obedience: The psalm warns against rebellion and forgetting God’s commands. Ask God to fill you with His empowering grace to keep you walking in obedience and your heart focused on Him. Remember, God doesn’t require obedience to control you, but it is the only way He can lead you to the blessed life and plan He already laid out for you.
- Share God’s Faithfulness: Verse 12 says, “Then his people believed his promises. Then they sang his praise.” Share the stories of God’s faithfulness in your life with others, so they can believe and rejoice as well. Telling your testimony will give others the desire for God’s direction in their lives so they can complete the assignments He set up for them.
- Pray for Others: Verses 23 and 30 show intercession. Moses and Phinehas stood in the gap for God’s people. Commit to praying for others who may not yet know they are chosen by God or do not understand what that even is. Your prayer and encouragement will be the very thing they need to get them on the right path in this life.
Today I want to encourage you to think about Psalm 106, let it inspire gratitude for God’s faithfulness and mercy. Let it remind you of your identity as a part of God’s family. Then, live in the joy of that truth, walking in His ways, and sharing His goodness with the world around you. Rejoice in His inheritance and invite others to step into the blessings of being one of His chosen people!
Today’s scripture reading: Psalms 106
1 Praise the Lord! Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.
2 Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord? Who can declare all His praise?
3 Blessed are those who keep justice, and he who does righteousness at all times!
4 Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me with Your salvation,
5 That I may see the benefit of Your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, that I may glory with Your inheritance.
6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
7 Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember the multitude of Your mercies but rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.
8 Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake, that He might make His mighty power known.
9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up; So, He led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
10 He saved them from the hand of him who hated them and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
11 The waters covered their enemies; There was not one of them left.
12 Then they believed His words; They sang His praise.
13 They soon forgot His works; They did not wait for His counsel,
14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert.
15 And He gave them their request but sent leanness into their soul.
16 When they envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord,
17 The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan and covered the faction of Abiram.
18 A fire was kindled in their company; The flame burned up the wicked.
19 They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped the molded image.
20 Thus they changed their glory into the image of an ox that eats grass.
21 They forgot God their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, awesome things by the Red Sea.
23 Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them.
24 Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe His word,
25 But complained in their tents, and did not heed the voice of the Lord.
26 Therefore He raised His hand in an oath against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness,
27 To overthrow their descendants among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
28 They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices made to the dead.
29 Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds, and the plague broke out among them.
30 Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was stopped.
31 And that was accounted to him for righteousness to all generations forevermore.
32 They angered Him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses on account of them.
33 Because they rebelled against His Spirit, so that he spoke rashly with his lips.
34 They did not destroy the peoples, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them,
35 But they mingled with the Gentiles and learned their works.
36 They served their idols, which became a snare to them.
37 They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons,
38 And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.
39 Thus they were defiled by their own works and played the harlot by their own deeds.
40 Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against His people, so that He abhorred His own inheritance.
41 And He gave them into the hand of the Gentiles, and those who hated them ruled over them.
42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
43 Many times He delivered them; But they rebelled in their counsel and were brought low for their iniquity.
44 Nevertheless He regarded their affliction, when He heard their cry.
45 And for their sake He remembered His covenant and relented according to the multitude of His mercies.
46 He also made them to be pitied by all those who carried them away captive.
47 Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the Gentiles, to give thanks to Your holy name, to triumph in Your praise.
48 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting! And let all the people say, “Amen!” Praise the Lord!
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