How’s your memory?

Some are contained by what others have said to them.
The words entered their very soul and destabilised their balance of life.
Today they respond according to what was cursed on them. Their yes or their no is filtered through that curse that came from an enemy and even a loved one.
Why is this so?
They chose to remember what was said. In their remembrance they replayed those words time and again in their minds until they became conditioned by this pattern.
This is not rocket science, no one needs a degree to realise how true this is. You may even be that person today.

What do you remember today? How is that helping you?
I have a Good News Bible that I won at the Keswick Bible week children’s meeting for my skill in memory Bible verses. What a claim to fame that is?!
In my early years of ministry I would run many holiday clubs for children, they all involved memory Bible verse games.
Most churches still do this kind of thing. But only for children.
In fact what happens when these children become adults and maybe even before that, is that they stop memorising what God has said in the Bible.
The result of this is that adults cannot recollect much of what the Bible and in particular what God has said.

“So I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are firmly established in the truth you now have. I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of this body, because I know that I will soon put it aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me. And I will make every effort to see that after my departure you will always be able to remember these things.” (2 Peter 1 v 12-15)

Peter knows he is speaking to people ‘firmly established in the truth’ but this doesn’t stop him writing to ‘remind you of these things’ and ‘to refresh your memory’ and that they will ‘always be able to remember these things’.

What will you memorise today and what will you dwell on? Shape your day before it starts with the Word of God.

We live in a world that is always bringing an update to the last creation. This is a new product; new management; new technology. We also need more than anything to go back to the basics of what we know. We need to stir up and renew what we used to carry in our hearts and minds. It is this that has sustained Christianity 2,000 years after leaders like Peter led the churches. It is what sustains us still.