Remember.
There are some thing
we seemingly, and happily can never forget, and others we forget too easily.
Then there are things we desperately want to forget but they cling to our
thoughts beleaguering us all too often.
Memories come and go, and memory can be a very fickle thing. Memory can
be erased by disease and destroyed by accidents, and trauma.
Remember.
We are told to
remember by God. Do we? If we have the capability we really need to listen to
God. Deliberately choosing NOT to remember the things God told us to remember
is wrong, very wrong. We sin when we choose to forget, to not listen.
Please Lord, help us
listen.
******* Continuing our prophecy study-- Please
GO back and READ the study from the beginning to gain full understanding of
where we are if you haven't been following this study daily. Thank you
:) We are on lesson number 69 1/2. God bless you! ******
There are various
beliefs on when the historic time period of the church takes place. I've been
doing more studying and in truth the various beliefs all have merits of their
own. Because this IS prophetic, a book of prophecy we are reading we know that
there are prophetic meanings throughout this entire book.
This is Jesus'
prophecy to His people.
Jesus wants people
to understand throughout time until He returns that they will face many things.
He didn't give the
prophecy to a single church, a single people that are His, but rather to His
people in various places, and prophetically in various times, and uniquely to
all. Those who read this prophecy a thousand years ago could find meaning
throughout all the messages to the seven churches, just as we a thousand years
after them could find meaning. So pinpointing the historic time periods can be
useful to a certain extent here, but it's not something I particularly am going
to concentrate on right now. I read some that stated this period of time starts
after 1798 (something I related in a previous study a few days ago) and I read
something else that stated it is during the 1500's. I see validity in both
views but there's where prophecy can be very confusing. At this point I'm going to concentrate LESS
on the historic time periods and pray that God opens my heart to the truth He
would have me comprehend. I do NOT want to get caught up in any lies, in any deceptions
that Satan is trying to bring my way.
May GOD lead me in this study and may the Holy Spirit give me all
understanding that I'm to have in the eternal way of things. (I'm NOT saying
this isn't important. Dates and History are EXTREMELY important, what I'm
saying is I need God's leading and when it comes I will, by HIS GRACE, by HIS
WILL, be able to convey it to any one reading these blogs.) I'm not a Bible expert and never will be, I
can only seek truth and pray for it to be revealed to me.
We studied this
yesterday but I feel the need for more-
Rev 3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and
heard…
Remembering how we
received.
Remember how we
heard.
We are told to
remember. How important is it to
remember some things in life? Critically important, yes? Life or death
important, yes? Seriously. If you take a little bit of time and think about it
there are things in life that need to be remembered or it can cause our own
death, or death of others. A surgeon in the middle of surgery needs to remember
the proper way to operate. A person driving a car needs to remember how to
drive. A person dependent upon medicine needs to remember to take that medicine
or they die. Why is it so strange to us who believe in God to understand that
we need to remember God's ways? How do we dare to believe that we can do
anything that we want to no matter what it is and forget that God gave us moral
laws. How can we trample those laws as
if the end effect is as simple as forgetting to take out the garbage, no harm-
no foul, a minor forgetfulness without any critical results. Why do we treat
choosing not to remember God's laws as if it's really no big deal at all
whatsoever, that our very LIVES do not depend upon remember the things our GOD
has told us to remember.
Right in the moral
laws of God we are told to Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Here in the prophecy of Jesus we are told to
Remember how we receive, to Remember how we heard.
I'm not sure people
actually understand the importance of this remembering. Clearly the majority of
people have no problem whatsoever with forgetting because so few choose to
remember and to live their lives in that remembrance.
In remembering we
need to HOLD FAST.
In remembering we
need to REPENT.
We can't afford to
hold loosely, we can't afford to not hold on tightly to what we remember. We
most assuredly cannot afford to simply not repent as we recognize the sin in
our lives- daily, minutely, hourly, whenever it is in our hearts convicting us
we cannot ignore the need to repent and seek forgiveness in our Savior.
IF we choose to
forget the love of our Savior, if we choose to forget the message our Savior
took on flesh to bring to us and allowed Himself to suffer the cruelest of
deaths, then just like a thief robbing us blind- we will be caught unaware and
robbed of eternal life.
Have you EVER been
robbed? Some of you will be able to answer- yes, others will answer - no. Think about it- have you ever been unjustly,
unexpectedly defrauded in any way at all?
Try to remember some form of completely unexpected offense against you.
Surely most all of us have had some form of UNEXPECTED betrayal in our lives,
perhaps in a tiny way, from family, from friends, or strangers. Because not all have experienced having their
house robbed we need to think on a different level so we can try to fully
comprehend the idea behind a thief taking us unaware and then we HAVE to
understand that if we do not hold fast to the admonitions and the teachings of
our Savior, and our Savior alone- and we do not repent we will be caught
totally off guard and we will lose the most precious gift of all- a life of
eternity in the presence of our Lord and King, our God, our Savior, the Father,
the Son!
May the Holy Spirit
keep us in love, in the purest love with our Savior. May the Holy Comforter
sent by God to us keep us in remembrance of ALL that we are told to remember
and help us to follow the laws of our God as He would have us follow them. May
the Holy Spirit keep us in the RIGHTEOUSNESS of our Savior, in HIS love always!
We MUST remember.
Here are the lyrics
to a song I truly like--
"We Remember"
How
could we forget
When You
touched the earth on that starry night
Angels
sang glory to God on high
We
remember
How
could we forget
The
moment the water became wine
Stories
of men leaving all behind
We
remember
The
story burns upon our hearts
A
beautiful and binding scar
Forever
we will
Forever
we will think of You
We
remember
We
remember You, Oh Lord
We
remember
We
remember You, Oh Lord
How
could we forget
There in
the garden You cried for it
The city
that cursed You and turned You in
We
remember
How
could we forget
Death
has no power and we are free
The good
thought of us there on calvary
We
remember
The
story burns upon our hearts
A
beautiful and binding scar
Forever
we will, forever we will think of You
Oh think
of You
We
remember
We
remember You, Oh Lord
We
remember
We
remember You, Oh Lord
Oh, the
the things that You have done
And
great things You've yet to do
Oh,
Jesus, we remember You
How
could we forget
The
moment Your love rolled the stone away
Our
hearts were opened our lives were changed
We
remember
How we
could forget
The
promise of hope and that trumpet sound
We'll
see Your glory roll back the clouds
We
remember
We
remember You, O Lord
We
remember You our King
We
remember You the son of God
Who came
to set us free
How
could we forget
When You
touched the earth on that starry night
Angels
sang glory to God on high?
Pasted
from <http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/newsboys/weremember.html>
By the LOVE of God
now and forever and always in all things!
Amen!
No comments:
Post a Comment