Remember

Read Deuteronomy 6:1-9

We just moved into our old house. While there has been many advantages, like already knowing our neighbors, there has been one big complication - the house is much smaller than we remembered. Thus all the stuff we accumulated over our four years away from that house, we have discovered does not seem to have a place. So, we are downsizing where we can. One place that I am starting to turn towards is all of the old VHS tapes. Mountains worth. You remember those things don't you? All those movies that were on a cassette the size of a small book. All those tapes take up room, a whole lot of room. So, I am faced with a couple of choices, get rid of them or get them on something smaller, like a DVD. I can't get rid of them, a lot of them are our home movies of when the girls were small. So, I need to convert them. Why? So I can remember.

It's funny, isn't it, how some of the most important moments of your life can so easy wisp away over time. Eighteen and sixteen years ago, I thought I would never forget what my precious little girls looked like as they were small babies. But as time marches forward, I need pictures to remind me of their angelic little faces. I need videos to remind me of their cute little ways of pronouncing certain words. I need to remember.

It's not just with personal events we have trouble remembering. We easily forget other big things too. Even God. In the selection of scripture I asked you to read above, the people of Israel were about to embark into the land that they were promised and had journeyed toward for two generations. In just a few short days, they would enter into the land described as flowing with milk and honey. And God wanted them to remember that it was God who brought them there. It seems rather odd that God would think they would forget that, but God knows us better than that. God knows as we get comfortable and settled into a good lifestyle, we often forget the hardships, the strain and toil of rising above our condition, and that God has been with us. We need to remember. We need to remember God.

Today, why don't you join me and take a few moments to maybe jot down a few things that God has done in our lives. Remember God's ever-presence in our lives. Remember that just as God has been with us in the past, God is in our present, and will be in our future. As we remember the past, we are better prepared for the future.

Godspeed,
Tim