Don't Forget to Remember

by an Old Disciple of Jesus Christ

"Yea, they...limited the Holy One of Israel. They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them." ~ Psa. 78:41

Psalm seventy-eight is all about God's people forgetting to remember. It is a brief history of God's marvelous works in the life of His people. For example, the opening of the Red Sea; who could ever forget that great momentous event? Yet these sad words are recorded of God's elect, "The waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left...They soon forgat His works." Let us not be too hard on them, we are their offspring. Just as the butler forgot all the good Joseph had done toward him, so do we forget the wonderful things God has accomplished in our lives. We have such short memories! We need to put a sign on our prayer closet door to be read before entering: "Lest I forget."  

There is a general principle found throughout the Bible, whenever God is getting ready to do some great thing on behalf of His saints, He reminds them of past experiences. God, speaking to His children says, "I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it." Jesus taught His disciples this truth. Although He had fed the multitudes on two separate occasions, they had evidently soon forgotten these miracles. "O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? Do ye not...remember the five loaves of the five thousand...Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand?" Notice, our faith shrinks when we forget to remember. 

I think it would do all of us good to take some time each day in our devotions reflecting upon the great things God has done in our past, in answer to prayer.

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