Remembering God
Have you ever wondered where brokenness and sin come from? Have you ever considered the possibility that your sin and brokenness has it’s beginning in forgetting God?
Much of our brokenness and sinful choices come from not remembering God in our living.
God spoke to the Israelites, who he delivered from slavery in Egypt, and who he was preparing to bless by giving them the promised land, saying; “then watch yourself, that you do not forget the Lord who brought you from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.” (Deuteronomy 6:12).
If we want to continue in intimacy with God, and remain intimately connected with him, we must not forget God. We must not forget the story of God’s faithfulness and presence with us as he saves us and walks with us into his plans for our future story and life with him.
Moses exhorted God’s people later in his speech, saying, “Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today.” (Deuteronomy 8:11).
When we do not keep God’s commandments, we are forgetting God. Conversely, when we forget God, we sin against God.
When we forget God, we rob ourselves of intimacy with God and with others, and we loose the opportunity to fully enter into his “promised land” for our lives.
God calls us to faithfully remember him and to follow his commandments in our lives, so that we may fully enjoy God and all that he has for us—to bless us in his good territory.
May we remember God as we live out our lives in freedom—as we live, move, and have our being in God’s promises kept for us.
In Christ alone, Robbie
A Collect For Guidance: “Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
