April 27: ABOUT REMEMBERING

Those of us who are getting older get a lot of teasing about not being able to remember important things now, like where we left our glasses. It seems that the longer we live the more facts we have to pack in our brains and we begin to forget. A lot of things that all of us forget are so unimportant that it really doesn’t matter.
But the Bible commands us to “remember” so many important commands. I don’t think we have the freedom to “pick and choose” which ones we want to remember. To forget any of God’s commands carries deadly consequences. We are commanded to “remember the wonders God has done” (I Chronicles 16:12) and “remember your Creator in the days of your youth” (Ecclesiastes 12:1) and “remember the Law of Moses.” (Malachi 4:4)
While we are being commanded to remember, there is a much longer list of different people requesting the Lord to remember. The contrast is quite obvious.
We have God’s commands in the Bible, we are commanded to remember and we disobey. God, on the other hand, is requested by forgetting men to remember them and He always does because that is His nature. God never forgets to remember us.
Can’t we do better? Can’t we grow spiritually and become a little more responsible? David entreats us in Psalm 103:2 “forget not all His benefits.”
The hardest people for me to figure out are people who have been dramatically blessed by God and delivered from a terrible circumstance. They promise from the hospital bed or some other spot “Lord, I will never forget you, I will always be faithful to you. I will be the most faithful member of your church.” Then they forget to remember. Did that ever happen to you?
Are you remembering the right things today? Don’t forget to remember.

“With the thief on the cross we ask you to remember us, Dear Lord!
Create a new kind of memory in our hearts; we need it. Amen”