Hebrews 13:5-6
Make
sure that your character is free from the love of money,
being
content with what you have;
for He
Himself has said,
“I WILL
NEVER DESERT YOU,
NOR WILL
I EVER FORSAKE YOU,”
so that
we confidently say,
“THE
LORD IS MY HELPER,
I WILL
NOT BE AFRAID.
WHAT
WILL MAN DO TO ME?”
The
Bible is one of the ways God reminds us of all He has done. Last year when I
read through the Bible in 90 days, I was amazed at the lengths God when to with
the Israelites to create a memory.
After they had been in Egypt for so long as slaves they had forgotten
His promises. The generation that felt lead by God, the man that said to his
brothers “5 Now do not be
grieved or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here, for God sent me
before you to preserve life. “ (Exodus 45:5) was gone. The Israelites
throughout the generations under hard labor in Egypt had lost all that their
God had done.
God uses
the miracles of the ten plagues to create a new memory with them. God commands
them to remember how He rescued them from Egypt.
Psalm
77:11
I shall remember the deeds of the LORD;
Surely I
will remember Your wonders of
old.
Psalm
77:3
When I remember God,
then I
am disturbed;
When I
sigh,
then my
spirit grows faint. Selah.
In psalm
77 we are lead in remembering God’s wonderful deeds. The psalmist is seeking
God and as he cries out, he remembers how God delivered the sons
of Jacob and Joseph.
Remembering
reassures us and brings us comfort.
Psalm 105:5
Remember His wonders which
He has
done,
His marvels
and the judgments uttered by His mouth,
Psalm
105:8
He has remembered His covenant forever,
The word
which He commanded to a thousand generations,
Psalm
105:42-45
For He remembered
His holy word
With Abraham
His servant;
And He
brought forth His people with joy,
His
chosen ones with a joyful shout.
He gave
them also the lands of the nations,
That
they might take possession of the fruit of the peoples’ labor,
So that
they might keep His statutes
And
observe His laws,
Praise the LORD!
The
psalmist in Psalm 105 is also recounting the history of God’s rescue of Israel.
God reminds us so that we will obey. We will have full confidence that He is
good and just. He wants the best for us and when He tugs at our hearts we will
follow because we remember.
Isaiah 49:15
“Can a
woman forget her nursing child
And have
no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even
these may forget,
but I
will not forget you.
After
all this talk of remembering, I remind you, the reader that God will not forget
you. He has promised us that.
I choose to follow and remember and have
confidence that My God never forgets me, what are you choosing…
