Remembering is very important throughout scripture. While it is mentioned over 227 times in the Word of God, we can tend to have memory lapse throughout our day.
What is your greatest memory of God’s goodness? He wants us to look back and see His fingerprint all over our lives. With Him behind you, there is no need to fear anything that is in front of you. You have enclosed me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me. Psalm 139:5
Some days our response is grumbling, complaining, murmuring and quarreling and we tend to forget the goodness of God. We tend to miss the joy in the journey. Sometimes we need to just stop in the middle of our day and remember all that He has done for us, all that He has brought us through and from, and where our destiny truly lies.
You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to observe the sabbath day. Deuteronomy 5:15
It is His mighty hand that guides, protects, reaches down and touches our lives.
Preparing for an upcoming retreat, I wanted to have a visual for the women to remember God’s goodness, which in turn remains on my desk as a remembrance of His goodness.
And Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar, and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the Lord to be kept throughout your generations.” Exodus 16:33
What good thing is He asking you to remember today?
Let it outweigh the negativity that seeps in, the insecurity that lurks around the corner, or the lies that embark on the truths of God.
Take a moment and look back on God’s fingerprints all over your life:
- Remember how God has protected you from making a shipwreck of your life.
- Remember how God graciously let you grow up in a godly family.
- Remember how God awakened you to the ugliness of your sin.
- Remember how you walked away from that terrible car crash.
- Remember how your wife, sister, or mom survived breast cancer.
- Remember how you had mentors and key friends guide you in your faith.
- Remember how he sustained you during that season of unemployment.
- Remember how God miraculously healed you.
- Remember that impossible prayer request that God answered.
- Remember how you had no money and an envelope just showed up in the mail with exactly the amount you needed.
- Remember how the gospel came alive as it never had before.
- Remember God. (Steven Lee, Pastor, College Church, Wheaton, IL)
Oh, that we would not allow the wonder of God to fade from our memory and experience spiritual amnesia, but we would remember His goodness that is forever imprinted on our heart.
Once a sinner, but now a child of God….a true miracle.
Now, with great strength GO and remember all that He has done for you and display strength and take action. (Daniel 11:32)
Journeying with Him,