Forget Not.

Forget not.

If you are told to forget not by God, and you forget, you are guilty of not listening to God, not heeding His word.

Throughout history God's people continuously forgot God and His ways and they were held accountable for their forgetfulness.

I'm someone who is prone to forgetfulness and I have been all my life, it's nothing new for me. I don't like my forgetfulness, it's caused a lot of hardship.

As the Word of God speaks to us, being told not to forget means we have to take special pains to remember. Just like I've had to take special pains to write down lists, to leave myself notes so I don't forget day to day things- groceries I want to pick up, things I want to accomplish, things others want me to accomplish and so on.

What kind of special pains should we take so we remember all the things God would have us remember?

Constant study, constant reminders, daily reviewing, unending prayer, and trusting in God. We are told this--

Joh_14:26  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

We need to trust that the Holy Spirit will bring all we need to our remembrance when we need to remember. However, we need to have all the information in our minds to begin with right? To not forget means we knew something at one point before forgetting. If we are asked to do something in the future and we forget, at one point we knew we'd been asked to do something. We need to have the word of God in our minds, and once it is there we may forget things, but we have a Holy Spirit who will help us remember what we once knew.

Pro 3:1  My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments

We are told not to forget God's law, and most people know that even in the royal law, the ten commandments, we are given one commandment with the command to remember. Our hearts need to keep the commands of God. They need to be a part of our lives. If we live God's commands then they'll be so much a part of us we won't be in danger of forgetting.

Pro 3:2  For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

Praise God.

Pro 3:3  Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart

We are told not to forsake mercy and truth but to bind them about our necks, and to write them on the table of our hearts.

How incredibly important mercy and truth are that we are told to attach these to our very being, they should be a part of us, a vital part.

Pro 3:4  So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. 

Such wisdom. Let us read and absorb what we are being told.

Pro 3:5  Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 

All too often we lean to our understanding. We want to understand. We believe we have the right to understand. We upset ourselves trying to comprehend all we can. To lean not to our understanding means we have to allow for not comprehending all we want to comprehend. We have to yield what we believe is our need to understand. I can recall saying numerous times to others- I just don't understand, I want to understand, help me understand. This is especially when I'm in the midst of an argument and I'm trying to comprehend another's point of view. It also happens when I'm trying to understand something difficult for me and I'm not grasping it easily. I have desperately wanted to understand things and still not been able to- it's very, very frustrating. When we have to trust in the LORD with all our hearts and NOT lean into our own understanding, we have to believe that the LORD will give us all the comprehension we need to belong to Him and follow Him as He wills. We can't expect to understand all things of God, we just can't. We need to trust even when we can't understand. Allowing ourselves to get frustrated because we don’t understand everything defeats our need to trust with all our hearts. ALL our heart needs to be involved in trusting, not just a part of it, all of it.

More on all of this tomorrow by the grace of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. All through HIS LOVE!