Religion

Psalm 19 speaks eloquently concerning God’s word and God’s world. The Psalmist often is discouraged, depressed, disappointed and oppressed. He reaches out to God in the midst of his frustrations, illnesses, problems and finds that God is there.

Someone once said, “You can’t go home again.” But the good news of the Bible is you can go home again. Man was created for fellowship with God. Sin breaks that fellowship and causes separation from God. In spite of our rebellion God still loves us and through the death of Christ made provision for the forgiveness of our sins and our return.

The word “Revelation” translates the Greek word apokaplypsis, which is an unveiling or disclosing of reality that previously has not perceived. This apocalypse came from God through Jesus Christ, whose past, present and future position and work makes up the content of the revelation communicated to John by an angel (22:16). The purpose of this book is to show his servants what must take place between the first and second coming of Jesus. The entire message is to be signified (said through signs).

One problem we face many times is a malfunction of our memory. We remember what we are supposed to forget and forget what we should remember.

God says, “Your sins and your iniquities will I remember no more.” Yet many Christians are shackled with the memory of sins that God has already forgotten. Paul said, “Forgetting those things which are behind,” and yet many are chained to failures and mistakes of the past. We need a poor memory when it comes to sins that God has already forgiven, buried and forgotten.