i want to encourage us today about remembering remembering the good remembering the things that are helpful to us you see so many times in life there’s negative things that happened to us maybe a bad childhood maybe a divorce some negative words have been spoken in your in your life and those are the things we don’t want to remember we want to remember what is beneficial and what is good have you ever been mowing the lawn or maybe washing the dishes driving down the street and all of a sudden a memory from the past hits your thoughts man
it came out of nowhere or maybe something that had happened two weeks ago at work just kind of runs right into your thought life and it makes you feel sad or lonely depressed maybe those negative thoughts make you even feel fear for a moment fear of what would happen in the future you see that’s what negative thoughts do to our life they stop us they’re intended to cause us to pause to not walk in faith and victory so that’s why I want to encourage us so much to remember what we’re remembering let’s remember the good the apostles wrote many times in the New Testament they wrote
things like this i am writing to remind you i am writing to remind you again paul put it this way he said “I never get tired of reminding you.” In second Peter Peter said this he says “I’m writing you two letters two letters to remind you you see they knew the power in remembering the right thing they knew that it could transform your life when you remembered what God has said and when you remember what God has done that’s good see we need to remember it’s easy to put our minds on autopilot but we have to know that there’s transforming power and it’s worth using our time
and energy to focus on what we’re remembering the Old Testament God commanded his people the children of Israel he commanded them to take time out from their busy schedules several times a year to celebrate festivals he called them times of remembrance see he wanted them to stop to celebrate what he had done now can I tell you this this wasn’t a suggestion by God it wasn’t something that was optional god required them to take time to stop and remember the miracles how he parted the Red Sea how he brought water out of the rock how mana came down from heaven he wanted
them to pause and remember the wonders that he had done the marvelous deeds that he had performed you know why he wanted them to do that because they’re a lot like us today they get busy doing life and sometimes when we’re so busy doing life we have a tendency to forget and in that busyiness and in those struggles and in those places of trying to make things happen we find ourselves thinking “If I don’t make this happen it’s not going to happen i got to get this done i got to do this i got to do that.” And we struggle and we struggle and we forget we forget who’s in control we forget
