Psalm 78 is the second longest psalm in the Psalms. It is a history lesson, tracing the history of Israel from Egypt to the promised land, from Zoan to Zion, from bondage to rule. George Santayana said that those who forget the lessons of history are destined to repeat them. Hegel said, "The only thing we learn from our history is that we never learn from our history."
Jehovah God would have His people be the exception to the rule. He would have us to learn from history. He longs for us not to repeat the mistakes of the past. To that end He has recorded history for our learning (see Romans 15:4).
As you read Psalm 78 this week heed the warning. If we do not give ear to the word of Jehovah God we are doomed to repeat this mistakes of the past. Our lives will be enriched and our God will be glorified if we incline our ears to His word.
Psalm 78:1-11; ASV
1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,
3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done.
5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
6 That the generation to come might know (them), even the children that should be born; who should arise and tell (them) to their children,
7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,
8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
11 And they forgat his doings, and his wondrous works that he had showed them.
