Remember your Creator in the days of your youth,
before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you
will say, “I find no pleasure in them”—
Ecclesiastes 12:1
WHY DOES GOD WANT US TO REMEMBER???
Remembering is important to God….
Last Supper Luke 22
A desire to remember things comes natural for us
In fact you could even say our memory is the sum total of who we are!
Think about it how tragic it is when a loved one loses their memory. They no longer have the ability to recognize loved ones, remember stories from the past. They in essence begin to forget who they are! They are a fragment of what they once were.
Equally as tragic a person who forgets who they are spiritually!
We can sometimes remember the wrong things and forget all the right things!
What happens when people don’t remember?
DevastationMarriage broken, Lives destroyed
Anyone who feels neither responsibility towards the past nor desire to shape the future is one who forgets!
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Remembering God’s faithfulness from the past:
- Allows us to trust Him in the present!
17 You may say to yourselves, “These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?” 18 But do not be afraid of them; remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.
Deuteronomy 7: 17-19
19 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.
Deuteronomy 7: 17-19
- Directs our actions in the future!
Remembering God’s faithfulness from the past:
34 But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock
1Samuel 17 34-37
35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it.
1Samuel 17 34-37
36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God.
1Samuel 17 34-37
37 The LORD who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.”
1Samuel 17 34-37
HOW TO REMEMBER
5 and said to them, “Go over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, 6 to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’
Joshua 4:5-6
7 tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.”
Joshua 4:5-8
- Write it down!
5 and said to them, “Go over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, 6 to serve as a sign among you.
When you don’t write it down we forget!
- Tell it to others!
In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’ 7 tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.
Future generations will repeat past mistakes without the learning from
others experience!
Decisions you’re making today will determine your memories for
tomorrow!
What are your stones, maybe you think you don’t have any; well today is perhaps the day of your first stone!
7 Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you. (NIV)
Deuteronomy 32:7
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.(NIV)
Proverbs 3:5-6
7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.(NIV)
Psalm 20:7
7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.(NIV)
Psalm 20:7
4 In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me? (NIV)
Psalm 56:4
4 Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal.(NIV)
Isaiah 26:4
2 Then the LORD replied: "Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. (NIV)
Habakkuk 2:2
1 That night the king could not sleep; so he ordered the book of the chronicles, the record of his reign, to be brought in and read to him. 2 It was found recorded there that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's officers who guarded the doorway, who had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
Esther 6:1-3
8 Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of a hundred and ten. 9 And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
Judges 2:8-11
10 After that whole generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation grew up, who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel. 11 Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the Baals.(NIV)
Judges 2:8-11
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