GOD Remembers Yahweh Zakar .mp3

How do we remember The LORD ? And how does He remember us? In Hebrew, "Zakar" is an action verb meaning to remember. "Zakar" is not merely to have a thought however , but rather to do something intentional in accordance with what you remember. A husband who remembers it his wife's birthday or their wedding anniversary and does nothing to show that he has remembered will suffer the consequences for several days... A Hebrew word you don’t want to forget is the word for remember: "zakar". In the Old Testament, to "zakar" is not merely to rifle through the files in your head until you find that fact you’ve been searching for, but to "zakar" is to employ your hands and feet and lips to engage in whatever action that the remembrance requires. Biblical remembering is a body activity, not merely a head activity. For instance, when “God remembered Noah” and all within the ark, He “made a wind blow over the earth and the waters subsided,” (Gen 8:1). GOD remembered Noah by doing something, by sending the saving, flood-drying wind. Remembrance = a Divine act of mercy. Or think of Joseph. When he interpreted the dreams of Pharaoh’s cupbearer, he begged him, “Only remember ["zakar" ] me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to remember me ["zakar" ] to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house,” (40:15). Most English translations render “remember me to Pharaoh” as “to mention me,” but the verb is "zakar" . Joseph expected more from the cupbearer than pleasant recollections. He wanted Pharaoh’s servant to do him kindness (Hebrew: "chesed" ) by remembrance resulting in action. When the LORD sees the rainbow and “remembers [his] covenant,” He actively prevents a cosmic global flood from recurring (9:15). When He remembered Abraham, He “sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow” of Sodom and Gomorrah (19:29). When He remembered Rachel, He “opened her womb,” (29:22). Biblical remembering is a body activity, not merely a head activity. Likewise, to forget is not to act. When GOD remembers, He does. Psalm 103:11 says that GOD remembers that we are dust, meaning that He knows that because of The Fall of Adam in Eden, we died spiritually and became subject to sin and death. But Hallelujah! He remembers us and He saves us. John says that “the word became flesh and dwelt among us,” (1:14). You might also say, “GOD's remembrance became flesh and dwelt among us.” Divine recollection was demonstrated in the incarnation of the mercy of GOD in the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ Who tabernacled amongst us and died in our place for our sins on the cross. The love of GOD is never passive but always active. See John 3:16 We are those remembered by GOD . We are the objects of his active, saving, incarnating, remembering mercy in Christ. For Him to "zakar" is to act in a way in keeping with the love that defines His very essence. Messiah's own Hebrew mother sums it up well as she closes her pregnancy song, the Magnificat, with these words, “He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy,” (Luke 1:54). She should know. Growing inside her womb was the incarnation of divine remembrance in the Son who would act to save us all. Selah Shalom