READ: Psalm 77:5-20
I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.
Psalm 9:1
Stir up your memory. People’s memories need to be stirred up. Many people forget important things. Life is all about remembering the right things at the right time. If you know something but do not remember it during your exams, you will still fail. Failure occurs because people do not remember what they should remember when they should remember it.
Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, TO STIR YOU UP BY PUTTING YOU IN REMEMBRANCE;
2 Peter 1:13
All over the world things are done to make people remember. Plaques, monuments, posters, gravestones, memorials and statues are all efforts to make people remember things. Rebellious and disloyal people are the most forgetful of all.
They cannot remember that something good was done for them. Because they do not remember, they become failures and losers. I predict that all those who live their lives forgetting all that has been done for them will become destitute. They will beg for bread and there will be none to show mercy to them.
People also need to be stirred up against idolatry. One of the greatest spiritual provocations of all is idolatry.
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, HIS SPIRIT WAS STIRRED IN HIM, WHEN HE SAW THE CITY WHOLLY GIVEN TO IDOLATRY.
Acts 17:16
If you took the picture of a snake or a crab and framed it and wrote the name of a president of your country under it, would it not be considered an insult? This is what you do when you take a goat, an antelope, a snake, a river or any piece of wood and say that it is your creator. It is one of the greatest provocations against God. “Little children, keep yourselves from idols” (1 John 5:21).