REMEMBER

‘…Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee’ (Luke 24:5, 6).

Life is a school and our daily encounters are our lessons in this school. Our success in this school of life is dependent on what we do with our daily encounters or lessons.

It’s normal to forget things every now and then. We’ve all misplaced our keys, blanked on an acquaintance’s name, or forgotten a phone number we’ve dialed a hundred times before. God created the human brain with the nature of forgetfulness for a good reason. For example, there is sometimes the need to forget the pain of the past to be able to fully enjoy the blessings of the present. Thus, we are supposed to be students of the past but not prisoners of the past.

In our relationship with God, there are times when it is very needful to remember God’s promises to us and our unique encounters of deliverance and blessings with Him. Three days after Jesus died, some of the disciples took spices to the tomb, they were ‘looking for the living among the dead’ all because they had forgotten of the Words of Jesus that, on ‘the third day he shall rise again’ (Luke 18:33). Many people are in the wrong places in life today, because they have forgotten some past events and the vital lessons they were supposed to take from them.

The patriarchs of faith, like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob built God memorials any time they had a divine encounter with Him (Gen 35:1), in difficult times these memorials became a remembrance of the power and faithfulness of God. Your encounters with God and in the life of other people you know are meant to be foundations that you build on, that your faith will be built up.

‘For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope’. (Romans 15:4). Today, remember and reflect on your past encounters with God and you will receive grace and confidence to continue life’s journey, winning all the way.

The next lesson is ‘The seven things to remember.’