LET THE REDEEMED OF THE LORD SAY SO
Psalm 107: 2
What
do you think about TESTIMONY in the Church? Quite a few do testify and I must
confess that I belong to the guilty ones. Sometimes this year, I lost some
money to pick pocketer, I ruminated over this and prayed and asked God why He
had allowed that to happened and the response I got was that I had remained
ungrateful. Ungrateful? Lord, please forgive me. I remembered specifically when
I promised that I would testify to His deliverance and did not. God is so good.
He completely indemnified me through a compassionate father and boss for that
loss. Since He does not want His people to go back to their folly, I stood
before God’s people and testified.
How
many times have we taken the Lord and His mercies for granted? On Monday 7th
May 2012, I could see a commercial bus run over a commuter who stood in the Bus
stop, what happened was that, the Bus was pursued by the Police for violating
the traffic rule and in order to escape the arrest drove against the traffic
and when the Police saw that the vehicle had run over someone, they left
pursuing him. Just last year, someone I knew died while standing in Bus Stop,
he was knocked down by a hit and run driver. God’s mercy kept you and I. How
grateful we should be.
The
Hebrew word used for the redeemed is Ga'al,
Ga’al is a transliterated word
meaning 1)to redeem, to act as
kinsman-redeemer, to avenge, to revenge, to ransom, to do the part of a kinsman,
,2) to redeem (by payment) 3) to redeem (with God as the subject) a)individuals
from death b) Israel from Egyptian bondage c)Israel from exile b)(Niphal) 1) to redeem oneself 2) to be redeemed. (from The Online Bible Thayer's Greek
Lexicon and Brown Driver & Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, Copyright © 1993,
Woodside Bible Fellowship, Ontario, Canada. Licensed from the Institute for
Creation Research.) Ultimately, our redemption encompasses all these.
We
had nothing we could pay as our ransom but He provided the blood of the Lamb. We
were strangers and aliens to the commonwealth of Israel but He brought us near
through the everlasting blood of the covenant. We were adopted and brought into
the family of God. He put His Spirit in us and we cry Abba Father. What a
privilege! Now the access gate to the Father has been opened wide we could
approach Him, pour our hearts to Him, knowing well that He listens, cares and
ready to help us. He has the power to fight on our behalf, there is no foe that
that He cannot defeat, no opposition He cannot crush, no problem He cannot
solve. And yet in wisdom, He chooses the best for us even when because of our
limitations we ask amiss. Oh God, how wonderful are Your thoughts towards us! If
you can remember His mercies give Him thanks for He is good to you. Glory be to
You Precious Redeemer. Let the Redeemed
of the Lord say so!
