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Today, we have a special treat for you! Denise O'Donoghue, the Director of Women's Life is sharing her thoughts on remembering.
We know you will enjoy it!
There are popular psychologies that hold to the premise that today’s problems stem from unresolved issues from the past. Psychologists holding to this theory will encourage their patients to remember. They will challenge them to dig deep to uncover repressed memories so they may be dealt with.
Now I am not a psychologist, but I am an avid Bible reader and I want to share with you why God tells us to remember. In Deuteronomy 8, Moses tells the people of Israel to remember how God had led them the 40 years they were in the wilderness. He wanted them to remember God fed them with manna so they would learn they needed more than bread to live; they needed God’s very words! He wanted them to see that even in the hard times when God was disciplining them for their lack of faith, He took care of them – their shoes didn’t wear out nor did their feet blister. God cared for them as a loving father, even in their discipline.
Remember every road that God led you on for those forty years in the wilderness, pushing you to your limits, testing you so that he would know what you were made of, whether you would keep his commandments or not. He put you through hard times. He made you go hungry. Then he fed you with manna, something neither you nor your parents knew anything about, so you would learn that men and women don’t live by bread only; we live by every word that comes from God’s mouth. Your clothes didn’t wear out and your feet didn’t blister those forty years. You learned deep in your heart that God disciplines you in the same ways a father disciplines his child. ~ Duet. 8:2-5 {The Message}
Remember every road that God led you on for those forty years in the wilderness, pushing you to your limits, testing you so that he would know what you were made of, whether you would keep his commandments or not. He put you through hard times. He made you go hungry. Then he fed you with manna, something neither you nor your parents knew anything about, so you would learn that men and women don’t live by bread only; we live by every word that comes from God’s mouth. Your clothes didn’t wear out and your feet didn’t blister those forty years. You learned deep in your heart that God disciplines you in the same ways a father disciplines his child. ~ Duet. 8:2-5 {The Message}
Moses reminded the Israelites of these things to call their attention to the goodness of the almighty God who had called them to be His people. He did not call them to remember how awful things had been in the wilderness or the injustices leveled against them. Why was it so important they remember? The answer can be found further down in the passage --because they would be tempted to forget and stray from God. They would be tempted to forget God and accept gods of the people whose land they inhabited and they would be tempted to forget that the good life they enjoyed was God’s blessing and not of their own doing.
We are in that same danger. We need to listen to what our older brother Moses is telling us – remember who God is and what He has done for us; elsewise, we will succumb to the alluring of the
people around us and be tempted by their gods (idols). We will forget all that we have comes from His loving hand.
Today, will you and I choose to remember and focus on the hardships and troubles of life OR will we choose to remember and ponder His loving kindness and goodness by remembering all the things He has done for us?
By His Love,
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