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Organic Scripture

 

Psalm 106:4

Remember me, O Lord,

when you show favor to your people;

help me when you deliver them;

Thought for the day

Have you ever read a passage of Scripture and felt that you’ve heard that before? It may not be a direct reference, there are literally hundreds of those and a good Bible should give you those references in the foot notes. But those times when you read a passage and it’s more like an echo. (I’m sure there’s a theological or literary term for it, but I can’t remember it.) Today’s verse is the same. As I was reading the Psalm, I heard an echo of a another verse. I’ll give you a second to see if you can think what it was… My echo was when the thief on the cross with Jesus turns to Jesus as says: ‘Jesus remember me when you come into your Kingdom.’ Luke 23:42

 

This is one of the joys of Scripture. We read portions of Scripture and it makes connections with other sections of Scripture. Maybe not directly, but certainly organically. There almost a neuroplasticity to the Bible that forms new connections as we read it. Those echoes we read and hear become new pathways for us to learn about the Bible and about God himself. So, in today’s verse and it’s echo, both the psalmist and the thief are asking God to remember them and wipe away their sin. They recognise their need for God and so they ask knowing that God will hear them.

 

Think about those times when you have heard an echo in Scripture. When you’ve thought about it what does tell you about God?

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