July 26, 2013 (Friday)
“Young women don’t forget their jewelry, do they? Brides don’t show up without their veils, do they? But my people forget me. Day after day after day they never give me a thought” (Jeremiah 2:32 MSG).
If you were to ask me to tell you the names of the Great Lakes, I could tell you because I heard this guy on TV say that all I had to visualize was a lake surrounded by homes. That word, “homes,” jogs my memory. Each letter is the first letter of one of the Great Lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior. Simple, eh?
“Association” is the name of the game when it comes to remembering lists, etc. That’s OK, if you want to learn how to do that, but the kind of memory loss I am faced with these days takes place when something I know that I know absolutely eludes me. It may be the name of a person, place, thing, you name it. It used to be up there doing its thing in my brain, but all of a sudden it decides to hide. It hides so well that I cannot remember it no matter what I do. Very frustrating.
Perhaps that’s why the Book of Ecclesiastes has a chapter that begins, “Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth” (Ecclesiastes 12:1 KJV). Very good advice for people of any age, young or old.
People are forgetting God these days. As Dale Pogue pointed out in a recent blog, in some ways America is going the way of Great Britain and other European nations, where great cathedrals have become museums. Several American celebrities brag about being atheists.
There is a sobering verse in the Bible that says, “He who sits in the heavens laughs, The Lord scoffs at them” (Psalms 2:4 NASB). This verse answers the question, “What does God think of opposition to Him?” Evidently, He sees it as ridiculous. Makes me think of the first line of an old sermon about the Prodigal son: “Young man, young man, your arm’s too short to box with God.”
The worst mistake any of us could make in this life is to forget God.