The Need to Remember

Monday, 18 April 2011 12:00 AM EDT R.T. Kendall Daily Devotionals - By Love Transformed

I thank my God every time I remember you. —Philippians 1:3

God has a perfect memory, and yet, if we are to believe the psychologists, so have we. Psychologists say we never really forget. Well, you could have fooled me, but that's what they say. We do forget, however. When we look back on our past we remember things that were pleasant. Yet it is one thing consciously to remember things; the sad thing is there are some things we don't forget, especially if something is pointed out to us. One of the things that will make hell, hell is that you will have a memory in hell. In Luke 16:25, Abraham said to the man who was in hell, "Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony."

But even on this planet, sometimes even as Christians our memories have to be jogged. At the Last Supper Jesus said, "Do this in remembrance of me" (Luke 22:19). One of the reasons for the Lord's Supper is to jog our memories, to remind us how we know we are going to go to heaven. For when we eat the bread and drink the cup, there before us are symbolized the body and the blood of Jesus.

The first time the word remember appears in the Bible is in Genesis 9:15-16, where God said to Noah, "I will remember my covenant. ... Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant." Sometimes it seems as if God is slow to remember. Sometimes we come to Him and cry, "O God, remember!" The question is, we ask God to remember, but do we remember? There is one thing God appreciates, and I cannot stress this too much, He appreciates being thanked. Remember to thank Him.

Excerpted from All's Well That Ends Well (Authentic Media,

Father today, I want to thank you, no long list of needs and concerns, you know these all too well. But a heartfelt thank you!

Thank you for challenges disgusted as problems and diffuclties; thank you for struggle that ultimately will make me stronger; thank for you calling in my life, someone else you called, didn’t answer and for some, the response was only half-hearted. You have been refocusing my heart, I look to you now. No I don’t know the what; the were or even the how, but you care too much about me for me to think, you called me to fail.

Thank you for loved ones, who care and reach out to me and others, because they know you have a purpose for our lives. Thank you for pain, it tells me something isn’t right and needs attention. Thank you for intercession. I wonder why did that person, that need come to mind? Thank you for the burden I don’t understand, but you do. Thank you for your presence in my life, your Spirit making intercession with goanings I don’t begin to understand. Thank you for leading beside the still waters, so that soul may be refreshed. Thank you for “making me lay down, in greed pastures . . .” with the sun shining on my face, the gentle breezes, or even when that dark clouds hang low, “I will fear no evil, for thou art with me . . “ Thank you for allowing me to love you for yourself, yes, you do all these thing and so much more, but I thank you today, just for yourself. May I kiss you face for being God, and my God indeed.

Keep looking up, Love ya,

T