Remember

Over the past few years I have been noticing an unsettling trend with my memory. Maybe you have been noticing the same thing with yours. I used to remember everything; I always wondered about those people who wrote things down so they wouldn’t forget. Now, I have become one of those people, and even then I might forget that I wrote it down. Part of our struggle as humans is we easily forget, and often it is the important things we seem to forget most often.
In the book of Joshua chapters 3 & 4 when God stopped the Jorden River for the Israelites to walk across on dry land, God tells Joshua to take twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan River. “He told them, ‘Go into the middle of the Jordan, in front of the Ark of the Lord your God. Each of you must pick up one stone and carry it out on your shoulder—twelve stones in all, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel. We will use these stones to build a memorial. In the future your children will ask you, “What do these stones mean?”’” Joshua 4:5-6 NLT. Tell them what God did for you. Use the stones as a reminder, so you can point your children to God. God knows all about our tendency to forget as humans, and so he encourages us to do a few things regularly that will keep pointing us back to him, things like worshiping at church, celebrating communion, living life together in group and serving together. He does not ask us to do these to make us spiritual, but simply to remind us of who he is and what he has done for us.
How well have you been remembering God in your everyday life? Do you need a few more reminders of God in your life? Why not take advantage of the ones God has already provided for us?

-Pastor Tim