It’s easy to feel stuck. Stuck in a particular life season, stuck in a job or financial struggle, stuck in grief, in a physical or mental illness. Feeling stuck, powerless to change your circumstance, can be very draining. In a world of instant gratification, it’s easy to lose any sense of hope.
If you’ve been a part of the Christian faith for a while, you may be familiar with the term “Ebenezer” from 1 Samuel 7, or in the popular hymn “Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing”. The Ebenezer stone is ultimately a memorial to God’s faithfulness. It’s a marker that is set up so that we would remember how God has been there for us and met our needs in a particular circumstance or situation.
But why is this important? Why did those Israelites in 1 Samuel 7 need to be reminded of how God sustained them in a tough situation? Why does that word remember appear time and time again all throughout Scripture? As much as we think we will never forget God’s faithfulness to us, we do. How easily the doubt and the lies sneak in and tell us we are stuck and hopeless, that we have failed or aren’t enough. THESE are the moments we need to be reminded of who our God is and who we are to Him.
The lyrics of “Do It Again” lead us to remember God’s faithfulness, and to allow His past faithfulness to help us recognize His present and future faithfulness. As we come to understand God’s desire and promise to care and provide for us at all times, may we put our hope and confidence in Him at all times, and find rest in that promise.
As we look forward to worshiping together on Sunday, I hope you’ll take some time to listen to the song “Do It Again” and meditate on the lyrics and Scripture passages below as you prepare personally to worship corporately.
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Do It Again
Walking around these walls
I thought by now they'd fall
But you have never failed me yet
Waiting for change to come
Knowing the battle's won
For you have never failed me yet
Your promise still stands
Great is your faithfulness
Faithfulness
I'm still in your hands
This is my confidence
You've never failed me yet
I know the night won't last
Your word will come to pass
My heart will sing your praise again
Jesus you're still enough
Keep me within your love
My heart will sing your praise again
I've seen you move
You move the mountains
And I believe
I'll see you do it again
You made a way
Where there was no way
And I believe
I'll see you do it again
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Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen and called its name Ebenezer; for he said, “Till now the Lord has helped us.”
1 Samuel 7:12 (ESV)
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and meet with God?
My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.
Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.
By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me—a prayer to the God of my life.
I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?”
My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
Psalm 42 (NIV)
Remember my affliction and my homelessness, the wormwood and the poison.
I continually remember them and have become depressed.
Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish, for his mercies never end.
They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness! I say, “The Lord is my portion, therefore I will put my hope in him.”
Lamentations 3:19-24 (CSB)
“Therefore I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing? Consider the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they? Can any of you add one moment to his life span by worrying? And why do you worry about clothes? Observe how the wildflowers of the field grow: They don’t labor or spin thread. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these. If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t he do much more for you—you of little faith? So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you. Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:25-34 (CSB)