Good morning. God knows us well. I suppose that makes perfect sense, because He created each of us uniquely different, but also with many things in common.
One of those things we have in common is our memory. We all have that aspect of mental function we know as our memory, but some memory banks are exceptionally good at their job while others seem to be less reliable.
But even for those who have memory ability that is considered excellent, help is needed. Perhaps details are well remembered but the concept or truth is lost. God knows that we need some help from time to time.
This is why our Lord instituted His supper at the Passover meal He shared with His closest disciples on the night He was betrayed. He held up the loaf and the cup and proclaimed the simple command: “remember.”
The same could be said for the work of baptism. As we read in Romans 6, the work of baptism is to establish a participation that provides a living memory as we join Him in the likeness of His death, burial, and resurrection.
Please consider these scriptures today and commit their truths to your memory:
Your life is not futile: However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
the things God has prepared for those who love him— 1 Corinthians 2:9
Your failures are not fatal: …for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that comes to us through Christ Jesus. Romans 3:23-24
Your death is not final: When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” “Where, O death, is your victory? — Where, O death, is your sting?” — The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Whatever the challenges of the day ahead these truths are always with us, for they are the promises of God.
Vern