Remember When . . . . .

I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember Thy wonders of old. I will meditate also of all Thy work, and talk of Thy doings. Psalm 77:11-12

Israel made it a point to recall God’s works to each generation. I believe the more we remember God’s work the more we need to glorify Him. Then we will be bolder in our faith, expectancy and reliance in our mighty God – let us remember these times together! We forget; God does not forget.

“What do you do when you don’t know what to do?”

This question arises, every-time we face a situation. Not only is it good to remember the works of the Lord, but we are to meditate and talk of His doings.

It is a joy we have in telling others about being reconciled to God through the Lord Jesus Christ. God the Son actually came to us as a human being in the person of Jesus so that we would be able to understand God.

In the Book of Exodus, Israel was in bondage to Egypt. On their way to the promised land the Egyptian galloping horses were gaining on the Hebrews. Hundreds of chariots were racing them. There were high mountains on the left and to their right. The Red Sea loomed ahead of them.

“What do you do when you don’t know what to do?”

I realized that this is our question these days. For the people caught between Pharaoh, the mountains, and the Sea, to remember how they got there meant remembering that God had established a covenant with them long before. It meant to remember that God had never abandoned them even when they were unfaithful to that covenant. It meant to remember that God had led them out of captivity in Egypt and had given them a hopeful vision of a promised land. That’s how they got to where they were. God had led them there.

Finding yourself on shaky ground and all caught up is no accident. That’s where you’re bound to end up when you’re following God’s call. And the lesson, is this, the same God who called you there will call you out of there. God will see you through to the next place.

“What do you do when you don’t know what to do?”

You remember. You remember the mercy the good God has always shown you. You remember that God is faithful. You remember that God’s love for you endures forever and ever and ever. You remember that you belong to God, and God to you. You stop and you remember God.

The long-suffering Hebrew people wondered out loud if God had abandoned them. Their hardship seemed to suggest that. But God replies: How could I forget you? Can a mother forget her nursing child? Can she forsake the child of her womb?”

“What do you do when you don’t know what to do?”

The Battle of Jericho, the Israelite’s first, is won by surrounding the walls of the city and walking around them, causing them to miraculously collapse.

It’s always good to Remember…. Remember the miraculous siege on Jericho? Remember God’s faithfulness within this story:  

PROBLEM – Israel had a big problem with the city of Jericho being so heavily fortified “tightly shut” verse 1

PROMISE – The Lord had promised Israel the victory “see I have given Jericho into your hand” verse 2

PARTNER – The Lord, their partner gave Joshua the strategy “You shall march around the city…” verse 3-5

PREVAILED – Victory! “They utterly destroyed everything in the city” verse 21. Remember “When God says it He Settles it”

We forget God’s compassion, grace and love is in control and will take care of us. In forgetting we open the door of our minds to anxiety and fear. We need to remember all the time that God is Good and that God is for us and with us.

In times of uncertainty, what can deliver us from anxiety to peace and praise, God? Remembrance. We need to remember that God counts the sparrows and He watches over them. We need to remember that God knows what we need. You need to trust God. And that trust arises only in the course of reflection about where you have been together all these years, you and God. (Me and My Mighty God)

God led us here, and God will lead us out from here as well. God does deliver. When we are there, it can be hard to remember, but that’s the time when it is all the more important to recall how we got here, to remember God who got us here, and will surely lead us on. 

“What do you do when you don’t know what to do?”

You begin by remembering what God has done, the God who isn’t done yet, the God who brought us to this place and will not abandon us here. If you are truly going to move into the future in faith, begin by looking backward in remembrance.

Look back and see that you have indeed come this far by faith, leaning on the everlasting arms, and if you remember that, and if you remind each other of that, you will always walk the pilgrim way together into the future, guided securely by the same precious hand that led you to now.

REMEMBER:  We have to choose to remember, though, and having chosen to remember we have to practice remembering, all the wonderful things the Lord has ever done.


PRAYER: Lord, it may at times appear that the wonders you have performed have gone unnoticed. But I have never forgotten. The times, the precious moments, that I have seen, all of the wonders that you performed in others lives as well as mine, they are forever engraved in my heart. I cherish all of them. And I will always remember when…

Dear friends, trust God, always. That’s what you got to do when you don’t know what to do. R E M E M B E R . . . . .