Don't Forget

Deuteronomy 4:9-10  "Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. ¹⁰ Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children.”

God tells us to be careful not to forget what we have seen and heard. We need to remind ourselves from time to time what God has said or done. We can do this by keeping a journal. We can do this by talking with others what God has said to us and done for us in the past. It is good every opportunity we have to talk Christ. When we meet someone, we talk about what they have done or doing and what we have done or doing, but we often forget to talk about what Christ has done or doing. 

Why is that? Is it because God hasn't or isn't doing anything in our lives? Do we feel it is a personal thing? Are we afraid of making the other persons uncomfortable? Do we feel it is abnormal or out of place? Is it a false humility? Maybe, it is because we already forgot what God has done or don't recognize what is  doing? I know in my own life, all these at one time or another plays a factor in me not talking with others about Christ. 

This passage goes one step further and tells us we are to make known to our children what God has taught us and done in us and for us. Many times a father or mother will tell stories from the past. They talk about events in the past. They will tell their children, when I was growing up my father did this or told me this. Yet, how often in these conversations do we tell our children a story of what God did in our lives or share spiritual events in our lives? Do we share with our child what we have learned from the Lord? I believe many a child raised in a Christian home hears very little such talk. I believe this is a contributing factor that causes so many of these children to be ignorant of God's ways and not grow up serving the Lord.

Lord help us not  to forget and let others not forget your ways.