How do we remember? When your spouse tells you to "remember to grab a gallon of milk," is she only telling you to think about grabbing a gallon of milk? Or does remembrance require more than mere thought?
Remembering does require thought, but it also requires more. It requires that we retain something in our minds, and that it changes who we are and what we do. When we remember to do a chore, we do it. When we remember our beloved departed, we experience joy, grief, fondness, and pain.
And when we remember the Lord our God, it changes who we are and what we do. Rather than blithely walking along our own strange paths, when we remember the Lord we return to His paths, acknowledge His sovereignty, and accept the grace and healing that He would send us through His new and everlasting covenant. In a sense, remembering, like faith, first requires thought, then leads to action, then culminates in result. And when we remember the Lord, we inevitably become closer to Him, for we are drawn to him as sheep called by the Good Shepherd. So let us remember Him.
Remembering past spiritual experiences helps us become closer to our Heavenly Father and Jesus multiple times from just one experience.
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