We are to remember who God is and what He has done. We are to remember His wonders and miracles. These are not just the things He did long ago, such as the rescue from Egypt, and the miracles Jesus did, but the things He has done in our lives. When God does some thing He reveals something about Himself.
Notice also the emphasis on the judgments God pronounces. When God makes a judgment He reveals something about Himself. And His judgments are in all the earth. They do not apply to just one sector of society, but to all men. We are His servants, we are the descendants of Abraham and children of Jacob. We are not the products of random chance, but are chosen by God. You were made on purpose and for a purpose.
So we are to praise God and to remember Him. In turn, God remembers His covenant with us. Here the Psalmist talks about the covenant made with Abraham. This covenant still stands, with the promise of all nations being blessed.
Next we are told how God's plan works out, and it does not follow a nice simple plan. They were few in number, they wandered about from nation to nation. Often God's plans seem impossible, and there seems no way that they are going to work out. But even in the midst of the wanderings, when it was impossible to tell exactly what God was doing, He was still protecting them.
There are two things that we need to appreciate about God's plan for our lives: (i) we do not realise the full extent and wonder of His plan for our lives; (ii) we certainly do not know or understand exactly how He is going to work that plan out.
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