Friday, April 23, 2021 Spiritual Amnesia "Those who are wise will take all this to heart; they will see in our history the faithful love of the Lord" (Psalm 107:43 NLT). My wife, Cathe, keeps a prayer journal, and sometimes she says, "Greg, look what I wrote in my prayer journal two years ago. Look at what we were facing, and look at how the Lord got us through it." It's good to reflect on the faithfulness of God because when you're going through something in the moment, you wonder whether you're going to get through it. That's what happened to the Israelites as they stood on the brink of the Promised Land. They had a case of spiritual amnesia. They seemed to forget all that God had done for them over the many years. In Psalm 107, in fact, we have a record of all that God did for the nation Israel. They had forgotten how God provided food called manna for them every day, right outside the door of their tents. They had forgotten how God had parted the Red Sea for them and directed them with fire by night and a cloud by day. The Israelites simply forgot how God watched over them. Sometimes we get discouraged when we forget the faithfulness of God in the past. But has God not been faithful to you in the past? Yes, He has. Therefore, will He not be faithful to you in the present in whatever conflict you're facing right now? |
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