Simply as God remembers us in our weak point, he additionally remembers those that belief in him. My favourite prophet, Jeremiah, is the supply of most of immediately’s references, however we’ll finish with a ultimate lovely thought by Malachi.
God remembers the early days of our religion.
One of many hardest rebukes heard by the church is present in God’s phrase to the church of Ephesus when he tells them: “You may have forsaken your past love” (Revelation 2:4 NIV). How may God say this if he didn’t keep in mind the early days of their journey with Christ?
This is able to be the identical path he spoke by way of Jeremiah to the individuals of Judah virtually 5 hundred years prior. He remembered how issues have been earlier than they went off the rails.
The phrase of the Lord got here to me: “Go and announce on to Jerusalem that that is what the Lord says: I keep in mind the loyalty of your youth, your love as a bride—the way you adopted me within the wilderness, in a land not sown. Israel was holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of his harvest.” (Jeremiah 2:1-3a CSB, emphasis added)
What’s God saying to you immediately about what he remembers of your first days collectively? Are you continue to as loyal to him as you have been within the days, weeks, and months after you trusted in Christ as your Lord and Savior? Are you continue to prepared to comply with him to the exhausting locations?
God takes be aware of our love for his Phrase.
We all know from later revelation that God does certainly preserve observe of our works. Out of his struggling, Jeremiah prayed the Lord would keep in mind how he had remained true to God’s Phrase.
You realize, Lord; keep in mind me and pay attention to me. Avenge me towards my persecutors. In your persistence, don’t take me away. Know that I undergo shame to your honor. Your phrases have been discovered, and I ate them. Your phrases turned a delight to me and the enjoyment of my coronary heart, for I bear your identify, Lord God of Armies. (Jeremiah 15:15-16, emphasis added)
After I learn this, I ask myself if I can pray the identical? What about you? Do you often feast on the Phrase of God? Is his Phrase a delight and pleasure to you?
God takes be aware of what we lengthy for and want. Psalm 119 is the longest of all of the psalms, and what’s the theme? God’s Phrase.
God remembers how we stand true to him.
Jeremiah knew that except the Lord remembered, all could be misplaced for him and God’s individuals. He prayed, trusting God to recollect his faithfulness in finishing up his name. It was not a simple job, and Jeremiah confronted a number of resistance, however he trusted God to recollect and never neglect.
Take note of me, Lord. Hear what my opponents are saying! Ought to good be repaid with evil? But they’ve dug a pit for me. Bear in mind how I stood earlier than you to talk good on their behalf, to show your anger from them. (Jeremiah 18:19-20, emphasis added)
His love for God’s individuals pours over into the e book of Lamentations. A desolate metropolis, a disgraced individuals, however Jeremiah prayed their exile and despair wouldn’t final without end. Why? As a result of the Lord would keep in mind.
Lord, keep in mind what has occurred to us. Look, and see our shame! (Lamentations 5:1, emphasis added)
The years of their punishment would finally come to an finish. God would keep in mind his covenant and his individuals, not for his or her sake, however for the sake of his identify.
When all appears hopeless, God remembers his individuals.
Returned from exile, however depressed and oppressed, God’s individuals puzzled if following the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was price it. If the evil prosper and the nice battle, why ought to they continue to be trustworthy? Simply earlier than the very long time of silence, God will converse by way of the prophet Malachi with yet another phrase of hope that’s price us remembering immediately.
At the moment those that feared the Lord spoke to 1 one other. The Lord took discover and listened. So a e book of remembrance was written earlier than him for individuals who feared the Lord and had excessive regard for his identify. “They are going to be mine,” says the Lord of Armies, “my very own possession on the day I’m making ready. I’ll have compassion on them as a person has compassion on his son who serves him. So you’ll once more see the distinction between the righteous and the depraved, between one who serves God and one who doesn’t serve him. (Malachi 3:16-18, emphasis added)
Those that nonetheless feared the Lord could be remembered by God. They might be his, thought of as his possession, on the day he was making ready. What’s that day? The Day of the Lord’s Return. On that day, all remembered by God and who bear his identify will likely be gifted with resurrected our bodies and rule with him on a renewed earth. The trials of the previous will likely be forgotten as all issues are made new.
Don’t despair, though evil appears to have the excessive floor. Stay trustworthy to Christ, understanding that God remembers and can name you to himself on that nice day. Keep true to Christ, his Phrase, his Method, for God by no means forgets those that concern him.
Grace and Peace
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