“Listen & Don’t Forget”
DISCUSSION
Have you ever tied a string around your finger to serve as a reminder
of something? The purpose of doing this,
was to have the string serve as a symbol of what it is that you were not to
forget. The reason why this strategy is
so faulty is that most of us forget what it was we tied the string for in the
first place. God knows that we are
imperfect people. He knows that as our
days and life’s grows even busier than it already is, we tend to forget even
the most important things. In the case
of the children of Israel, God knew that when life got to some sort of normalcy
for them in Canaan, they would forget what all it took for them to get
there. To help them remember to never
forget, he provided them with the Shema in Deuteronomy 6.4-5. The word “shema” rendered in English comes
out to “listen”. This passage would
become the daily prayer of the Israelites and later the Jews, to remind them of
the events that took place within the Exodus. Christians today don’t have such
a tradition, per say. We do have the
complete will of God revealed for us within His word, and by reading it we are
“listening to God”. I hope that as you
continue your daily readings, they have become your way of never forgetting
what God has done for, not just us, but to all of those people that continue to
serve Him.
Prayer
Requests:__________________________________________________________________
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