Psalm 106:7…
Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wondrous works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
Whilst in God’s presence recently I was pondering how it was the Israelites found it so difficult to trust God to enter the promised land. I was quizing the Lord how that could be so after all they had seen God do. He’d performed wonders infront of them in Egypt, He’d miraculously parted the red sea in front of their very eyes, yet they did not trust Him to help them enter. Throughout their history they were quick to forget.
Then the Spirit prompted me how easily I forget the goodness and the power of God. God may have done amazing things a week ago, even a day ago, but it can be so easy in the ‘terror of the now’ forget all of that and panic.
Througout the bible we are encouraged to remember our God and His works. Why? It is our testimony of what He has done in and through us and it is powerful. When we recall it, it stirs our faith, questions our doubts and starts to birth hope within us that God will do it again. It’s as if, when we recount it, it makes those interventions tangible again. Within our grasp. It’s like we call on the Kingdom to be here again, as then and as it is now in heaven.
I am starting to take seriously noting what God has done each day… sovereignly done. How we prayed for a woman a few days ago with pain in her hip, and she had not pain the rest of the day. How pain in a womans chest that had been there for three weeks, left in a worship meeting. When we remember what God has done and said, we start to see the connections throughout our days, and we have faith.