Spiritual Remembering

Some trust in chariots, and
some in horses; but we will
remember the name of the
Lord our God.
Psalm 20:7

We may have certain times when we remember to pray or spend time with the Lord at
established times...there are others including:

When I remember You on my bed,
I meditate on You in the night watches.
Psalm 63:6

After the flood, God presented a beautiful rainbow for Noah to behold. Noah said with what sounds like words of wonder:

The rainbow shall be in the cloud,
and I will look on it to remember the
everlasting covenant between God
and every living creature of all flesh that
is on the earth.
Genesis 9:16

A beautiful rainbow should cause us to remember the promises and goodness of God.

When you and I take the Lord's supper, it is done in memory...in memory of Jesus and what He did for us in dying and then giving us victory over death. It is a kind of photograph we have of Him without having a distinct image. It happened with Jesus and his disciples at their final meal together before Jesus was arrested:

...This is My body which is given for you;
do this in remembrance of me.
Luke 22:19b

As God speaks during our times with Him and we are blessed, how pleasing it is to God when we share with others God's goodness and ministry in our lives. The more we speak of Him to others, the more His goodness is engrained in our own hearts...and we remember.

Despite how others meet with the Lord, the important thing is that we make a point of doing it. We can't meet with Him with an attitude of obligation, but because of our love for Him and because we have sweet memories of what He has done in our lives that endears Him to us.
If someone remembers me in a fond way, I feel honored. Can't imagine the pleasure our God feels when we desire to spend time with Him, remembering His love and goodness on our behalf.

When my children visit or I have opportunity to be with them, I love those moments when they bring up something from the past that is a happy memory. Our son is here visiting with his family. Standing in our kitchen, and right out of the blue, he recalled my fording a very high stream here many years ago with a rope around my waist. I needed to secure the rope on the other side of the stream. He recalled my dropping my glasses in that rushing water but what a blessing it was being able to retrieve them before the stream swallowed them up. It was a family time that the family remembers with more fondness than I do. Still yet, it was heart warming for him to bring up that event.

When children come here to visit, I have usually checked ahead of time as to anything special they want me to cook. They remember certain things with certain tastes and I'm happy to fix those things. When we would visit my mother years ago, she would always have a pot of goulash waiting for us. I tried later to make it just like she did but it never tasted the same. The taste of that goulash still seems to linger in my mind and is heart warming. She would be pleased to know how much that meant to me and that I remember. I even have the beat up old pot she always made it in.

God is so pleased when we remember His goodness toward us. It's called “gratitude” and we can never run too short of that as we think of Him and His faithfulness to us on an every day basis. We should more often, take time to just sit alone, perhaps with Bible in hand remembering again how blessed we are. In different places of our world, there would seem to be many gods, but ours is THE true God who doesn't just give us quick answers for every problem we have. We can remember though how He has walked us through each one.
There is the old song, “Try to remember...” May we make it a point to try to remember more often as He continues to shower us with blessing after blessing that is so undeserved.

Father...Thank you for all You do for me on a daily basis. There are so many things I am remiss in remembering but pray that in my times with You, I will be reminded. I love You but want so much to love You more. In Jesus name....Amen