Wednesday, September 20, 2023

DO NOT FORGET WHERE GOD HAS BROUGHT YOU FROM

 


Everyone has a story from the past of where God has brought them from and the things that they have gone through and seen God delivering them from the trials that we faced. The problem with our human nature is that we tend to forget where God brought us from and we run into doubts whenever we face other problems in the future or we become proud and arrogant and unmerciful towards others who are facing difficulties and start judging them instead of encouraging them.

God told the Israelites to remember all the way that the Lord had led them in Deut 8:2. Just stop for a moment and think of all the way that God has led you since you became a child of God, remember all the trials that God has enabled you overcome, all your failure and yet God never forsook you though you have failed Him many time, the difficult situations in life where there was no way but God came and brought you out of it, the many traps the devil had placed on your way and God opened your eyes and you were able to escape. God has cared for you all these years, will He leave you now? One stanza in a hymn https:// www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/716  says that 

His love, in time past,
  Forbids me to think
He’ll leave me at last
  In trouble to sink:
Each sweet Ebenezer
  I have in review
Confirms His good pleasure
  To help me quite through.

Remembering how God loved us in the past will help us to trust him in the future.

God has called us to seek His kingdom first and His righteousness, Mat 6:33, and there is a an exhortation to such who are seeking Righteousness. Isaiah 51:1 says Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were dug.
We are encouraged to look back from where the Lord took us from, the life of sin which we lived and the hopeless cases from which God took us from. 

In Ezekiel 16:4-22, God reminds the children of Israel how he found them with their umbilical cord not cut, were not washed, rejected and thrown away and kicking and covered with blood and no one bothered to help, but God in His mercy took her and fed her and gave everything she needed but when she matured, she forgot all that and became a prostitute and did many wicked things. The reason is well explained in verse 22. I.e. With all the disgusting things that you did and all your acts of prostitution, you didn’t remember the time when you were young. You didn’t remember when you were naked and bare, kicking around in your own blood.

Peter in his letter, tell us that the reasons people reduce their sight spiritually and even become spiritually blind is because they forget the sins which God cleansed them. 2Pet 1:9  the person who lacks these qualities is shortsighted and, in fact, blind, BECAUSE he has forgotten the purification of his former sins.

 

We therefore conclude that forgetting where God has taken us from will be to our loss, and it is the reason many people backslide, become proud, judge others and criticize others when they fail.

Be warned

 

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