In our examine on the significance of remembering, we’ve talked about how God remembers occasions, individuals, and locations, whereas selecting to neglect sure issues, like our previous sins, after we search his forgiveness. Earlier than we transfer on to what the Bible says about our want to recollect, we’ll shut this portion on God by a remaining factor he remembers—his phrases.
What a consolation to know that when God says one thing, he remembers. I can’t rely the occasions a buddy has repeated to me one thing I stated, and I’ve no reminiscence of ever saying it! Our God has no defective reminiscence. What he says he remembers.
Does God want reminding?
There are a number of passages in Scripture the place an individual calls on God to recollect, like he might ever neglect.
As King Solomon prayed throughout the dedication of the temple, he took the chance to name on God to recollect his guarantees to his father, King David. Maybe he stated this in a need to retain God’s favor on his personal reign and the way forward for the dominion.
“Now come up, Lord God, and are available to your resting place, you and the ark of your would possibly. Might your clergymen, Lord God, be clothed with salvation, could your devoted individuals rejoice in your goodness. Lord God, don’t reject your anointed one. Keep in mind the nice love promised to David your servant.” (2 Chronicles 6:41-42 NIV, emphasis added)
Nehemiah knew what the results introduced on by these sins, and as he wept over the state of Jerusalem after the exile, he cried out to the Lord to recollect all he had stated to Moses.
Sure, the dominion of Israel can be shaken because of the sins of her kings, however God would keep in mind his promise to David and retain a remnant and in the end deliver the Son of David to reign for eternity. Now we have acted corruptly towards you and haven’t stored the instructions, statutes, and ordinances you gave your servant Moses. Please keep in mind what you commanded your servant Moses: “If you’re untrue, I’ll scatter you among the many peoples. However should you return to me and punctiliously observe my instructions, regardless that your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I’ll collect them from there and convey them to the place the place I selected to have my title dwell.” (Nehemiah 1:7-9 CSB, emphasis added)
As we discover energy and hope by way of the Phrase of God, we are able to echo the lover of that Phrase and creator of Psalm 119, as he prayed:
Keep in mind your phrase to your servant; you could have given me hope by way of it. That is my consolation in my affliction: Your promise has given me life. (Psalm 119:49-50, emphasis added)
God by no means forgets his phrase, however we are able to name on him to recollect it as we glance to him for energy, assist, and steerage.
God remembers his phrases of covenant and promise.
Guarantees made—Guarantees stored. There may be solely One for whom this assertion really holds, and that’s the Lord God Almighty. Not solely does God keep in mind what he has stated, however he is ready to fulfill his guarantees and see his plans by way of to completion.
In a psalm of thanksgiving to the faithfulness of God, we discover these phrases:
He remembers his covenant endlessly, the promise he ordained for a thousand generations—the covenant he made with Abraham, swore to Isaac, and confirmed to Jacob as a decree and to Israel as a everlasting covenant: “I’ll give the land of Canaan to you as your inherited portion.” (Psalm 105:8-11, emphasis added)
God promised the land to his individuals, and he has given the land to his individuals.
As his works are celebrated and remembered, all he has achieved is as a result of he remembers and retains his phrase:
He has triggered his wondrous works to be remembered. The Lord is gracious and compassionate.
He has offered meals for many who worry him; he remembers his covenant endlessly. He has proven his individuals the ability of his works by giving them the inheritance of the nations. (Psalm 111:4-6, emphasis added)
With the beginning of John the Baptist, we see the start of the final word success of God’s phrase within the coming of the Messiah. Zechariah, the getting old father of this miracle youngster, spoke this phrase of prophecy beneath the ability of the Spirit.
Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, as a result of he has visited and offered redemption for his individuals. He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the home of his servant David, simply as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets in historical occasions; salvation from our enemies and from the hand of those that hate us. He has dealt mercifully with our ancestors and remembered his holy covenant—the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant that we, having been rescued from the hand of our enemies, would serve him with out worry in holiness and righteousness in his presence all our days. (Luke 1:68-75, emphasis added)
What he stated he would do, he has achieved. The Lord has not forgotten his covenant however has stored each promise spoken. He’s true to his phrase, and we are able to discover consolation and encouragement in that, for there are phrases but to be fulfilled, and it will likely be superb after they come to go. Reward God—he remembers and retains his phrase.
Grace and Peace
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