“What one thing about God in Christ speaks directly into today’s trouble? … Just as we don’t change all at once, so we don’t swallow all of truth in one gulp. We are simple people. You can’t remember ten things at once. Invariably, if you could remember just ONE true thing in the moment of trial, you’d be different. Bible “verses” aren’t magic. But God’s words are revelations of God from God for our redemption. When you actually remember God, you do not sin. The only way we ever sin is by suppressing God, by forgetting, by tuning out his voice, switching channels, and listening to other voices. When you actually remember, you actually change. In fact, remembering is the first change.”
- David Powlison
We meet weekily as a local church after a teaching/preaching meeting, for an extended time (usually 45 minutes) around the Lord’s table. A time to remember.
And in that time set apart, one prayer is we’ll keep remembering as the meeting ends and we go about our week…
Remembering/Not forgetting God (and our cleansing from sin) made me think of 2 Peter 1 where we’re reminded to remember and not forget!
“…for if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.”
2 Peter 1:8,9
Such a timely word. This is actually what Jesus tells the church at Ephesus in Revelation as they had forgotten their first love – remember! When we remember where we have fallen from, we remember how sinful we really are and how terribly we need a savior. We then see the grace of God in Christ and turn to him in humility with a greater love for him.
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