Psalm 106

2nd November, 2019 - I woke up with the words "Psalm 106" written on my eyelids. I read the Psalm. It is a reminder of God's steadfast love. It is a reminder of the Exodus, and not grumbling in the wilderness. It is a reminder of Moses standing in the gap when God sent judgment on the people. It is a reminder of Phineas taking action against wickedness to stop the pestilence. It is a reminder to not partake of the world and not to bow to its 'gods'.

I might not have fully understood it in 2019, but I understand the significance of it now in 2020 - and I have seen that God is impressing this Psalm on others, too, even just within the small spectrum of people I listen to. It instructs us to take action against wickedness within God's household - it's a call to repentance.

Psalm 106v29-31 – they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them. Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was stayed. And that was counted to him as righteousness from generation to generation forever.

He did not intervene by intercession – Numbers 25v7-9 – When Phinehas…saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them….Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped. Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.