This past week we celebrated our anniversary and my birthday. These combined with coming off a week spent with all but one of our children and grandchildren in one very large house at an Ozark lake, have provided us with so many conversations which start with “Do you remember when…?”
Not all of the remembrances are, as my husband says, “rainbows and butterflies and unicorns” but it is hard to find one that didn’t eventually play out in a way which highlighted good. Yes, some we waited a long time for the good to show itself, and some we are still waiting on the good to manifest.
Yet, when we look back and remember, we can see God’s hand in very miraculous ways. In the moment? Not so much. But looking back periodically gives power to our trust that God is in all things. Even the really hard things.
“Remembrance is the fuel that fires our worship.” The message at church this past Sunday highlighted praise as part of our conversation and interaction with God; it included the above phrase. All through Scripture, we are given examples of trust and faith being built on remembering what God has already done. When reading Scripture, we know how the story ends: David kills Goliath, the Israelites escape Pharaoh, Jesus is resurrected. But the people living those stories didn’t know how things were going to turn out. All they could do was remember what God had done before.
When we remember, when we look back and find the turning points, the places where God’s intercession and shaping was unmistakeable, our remembrance fuels the fire of our worship.
How great is our God.
Just Sayin' 