“I Will Remember You” is a pop-rock song by Sarah McLachlan. It’s about a girl wondering if some past love still remembers her. How many middle-age people have those thoughts?  Maybe to them, it’s just a horrible memory they wish would just go away.

Now the one who does have a good memory is God. Thankfully, He is willing to erase those actions and thoughts that are contrary to His holiness, if we but ask.

Hebrews 10:17 

Then He adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”

Here are some things we shouldn’t forget:

• He remembered Noah and blessed him.
• He remembered the Israelites in bondage and sent a deliverer to them.
• He remembered Jonah and delivered him.
• He always remembered His people and heard and responded to their cries.
• He remembered us by sending His only begotten Son to save us.
• He remembers, now, His new covenant, made through the blood of His Son on the cross. This is a covenant in which He promises to forgive and cleanse us continually by His grace.
• He remembers that Christ assured His followers that they would rise at the moment of death to a place in glory prepared by Him.
• And, He will remember to return and take us to Himself.

Give it some thought.

Gary

Have you noticed that life is made up of a series of happenings?  It’s like changing the stage settings in a four-act play.

The word “happened” appears 222 times in the Bible. Those are a lot of happenings to examine in Scripture. This brings me to the question, what’s happening in your life? Who’s setting the stage for the next act?

Psalm 119:105 

Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Psalm 32:8 

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.

Do you think there are plays you really shouldn’t be acting in? Give it some consideration.

Gary

Michael Card recorded the song, Why.

Why did it have to be a friend
Who chose to betray the Lord?
And why did he use a kiss to show them?
That’s not what a kiss is for!
Only a friend can betray a friend.
A stranger has nothing to gain.
And only a friend comes close enough
To ever cause so much pain!

James 2:23 

And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.

John 15:14-15 

You are My friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

Do you know the pain of betrayal? Certainly, the betrayal of a friend produces greater pain. Don’t do it to Him. Give it some thought.

Gary

The phrase “I’ve gotta get a message to you” generally means someone needs to convey important information to another person, often with a sense of urgency. It certainly made a lot of money for the Bee Gees in 1968. However, I don’t think his wife got the message from her husband who murdered her lover and was now in his final hour on death row.

God has recorded thousands of messages for you. The question is how many have you received and how have you responded?

2 Timothy 3:1-7 

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. …

This is but one message of thousands. Give it some thought.

Gary

The phrase “He leads through deep waters“ often appears in religious contexts, particularly within Christianity, and is frequently associated with the Bible verse Isaiah 43:2. 

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you.
When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned,
Nor shall the flame scorch you.

We’ve gone through some waters, and we know from experience, those conditions will be repeated. The knowledge that God is the same today, yesterday and forever keeps us on sure footing. When the outcome is death, for the believer, he or she has just been gathered home.  How about you? Give it some careful consideration.

Gary

A staggering amount of drama in a minimum amount of time is the way I would describe the Book of Ruth. She was someone, like the woman at the well recorded in the New Testament, who didn’t stand a chance at salvation.

This drama records what God does in the lives of the hopeless. Have you experienced such grace?

Ephesians 2:8-9 

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

James 4:6 

But He gives more grace. Therefore, it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Does your life reflect a staggering amount of drama in a short period of time?  Think about it.

Gary

When attempting to rescue a person who is drowning, one must approach the situation carefully. The reason being the rescuer is in danger of being pulled under by the one needing salvation. That is also true spiritually and Jude gives us the warning.

Jude 22-23

And on some have compassion, making a distinction; but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.

Many are perishing, but be careful out there in your rescue attempts. Give it some thought.

Gary