A couple Sunday’s ago Pastor Jerrad was preaching on fear out of Psalm 23:4, “When I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff comfort me.”
I love Psalm 23. I repeat it every night as I go to sleep, visualizing in my imagination those green pastures and quiet streams. Because of that I listened very carefully to what Pastor Jerrad was saying. He used verses from Deuteronomy to expand his thoughts. Two of those passages caught my attention.
One was Deuteronomy 7:17-18: “If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’—you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.” [NKJV]
Notice that little phrase, “you shall remember well ….”
The Hebrew word for “you shall remember” is ZAKAR. The word for “well” is ZAKAR.” It is repeated. That’s like an exclamation point!
Moses was calling on the people not just to remember what the LORD their God did for them, they were to remember it WELL!
Remembering well what God has done for us in the past, will enable us to not be afraid when enemies come our way in the future.
