All hell breaks loose when you forget your
girlfriend’s / wife’s birthday or anniversary. “Are you kidding me? “ I said to
my friend. “You forgot you and your wife’s 20th anniversary?” He replied, “Yes,
and it wasn’t pretty. I didn’t remember it all day long, and at the end of the
night, at church, she had the last prayer. And in her prayer she says, ‘thank
you, Lord, for another year you’ve given me and my husband together.’ Bro, my
whole body froze…”
Now, don’t ask me how she
punished him and what he had to do to make it up –that’s a question only a
woman can answer–, but what I do know is that most likely the man slept alone
for a couple of nights.
In our walk with God we, men
and women, tend to forget important dates and anniversaries with our Creator.
No, I’m not talking about Christmas, the date we were baptized, or the day we
decided to separate ourselves from and addiction we had. I’m talking about the
miracles, great and small, that God has done in our lives.
Think about it. Where were
you 10 years ago? When looking back throughout the years, are you able to see
the mighty hand of God moving in your life? Would you be where you are if it
wasn’t for God? Have you forgotten that He has been shaping your life and that
he is intimately acquainted with your life since before you were born?
Scripture, when talking
about the Israelites in the desert, it says, “But he LED his own people like a
flock of sheep,
GUIDING them safely through the wilderness. He KEPT them
safe so they were not afraid;
and the sea covered their enemies. He
brought them to the border of his holy land,
to this land of hills he had won
for them. He DROVE OUT the nations before them; he gave them their
inheritance by lot. He SETTLED the tribes of Israel into THEIR HOMES (Psalm
78:52-54).
Speaking
with a close friend of mine yesterday I confessed, “Bro, I can’t see past my
graduation date. Will I be receiving a call from a conference? Where? When? And
what if I do not, what and where will I be going?”
And
this morning I realize that just like my friend who forgot his anniversary, and
just like the Israelites forgot who brought them forth from slavery in Egypt, I
too have forgotten about the miracles God has done in my life, where He brought
me out of, and how He has passionately continued to work in my life since day
one.
Psalm
78 reminds you and I that God is still LEADING, GUIDING, keeping us safe,
FIGHTING the battles we cannot fight and giving us the strength for those
battles that we can, because He has promised to SETTLE us into our TRUE HOMES.
So
do not worry about your future and the things God has done in your life in the
past, but CLING unto this promise: “God, who began the good work within you,
will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus
returns” (Philippians 1:6).
Blessings!
