2025-05-25 (Remembrance) -Welcome
2025-05-25 (Remembrance)
Welcome
As humans, we have a bad habit of forgetting things.
As humans, we have a bad habit of forgetting things.
We also have a bad habit of forgetting the things God has done.
It’s hard to trust God in your present,
if you forget what God did in your past.
27 Then they gave their report: “We entered the land to which you sent us. It’s actually full of milk and honey, and this is its fruit. 28 There are, however, powerful people who live in the land. The cities have huge fortifications. And we even saw the descendants of the Anakites there. (Numbers 13:27-28
30 Now Caleb calmed the people before Moses and said, “We must go up and take possession of it, because we are more than able to do it.” (Numbers 13:30)
31 But the men who went up with him said, “We can’t go up against the people because they are stronger than we.” 32 They started a rumor about the land that they had explored, telling the Israelites, “The land that we crossed over to explore is a land that devours its residents. All the people we saw in it are huge men. 33 We saw there the Nephilim (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We saw ourselves as grasshoppers, and that’s how we appeared to them.” (Numbers 13:31-33)
Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?” 4 And they said to one another, “Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt.” (Numbers 14:3-4)
They chose to focus on their problems, instead of remembering what God had already done.
22None of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice, 23 shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it. 24 But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it. (Numbers 14:22-24)
It’s hard to trust God in your present,
if you forget what God did in your past.
But trusting God is hard.
It’s hard to trust God in your present,
if you forget what God did in your past.
If you want to live unfazed, remember what God has already done.
Write it down.
Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, “I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. (Exodus 15:1)
Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea.
Remember what God has already done.
What if I didn’t?
Let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. (Galatians 6:9–10)