Have you forgotten?

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!