I was with military wives, studying Beth Moore’s “Living Beyond Yourself”, when I heard Beth speak these words on the video, “These two things I know from Psalm 62—that God is strong, and that He is loving.” I immediately opened my Bible to read that psalm and get the context to that passage. . . because the simplicity, truth, and power of it cut right to my heart. During my quiet time the next day, I re-read Psalm 62 and “feasted” on the beautiful words of truth in verses 11 and 12: “One thing God has spoken, two things have I heard: that You, O God, are strong, and that You, O Lord, are loving.” As I pondered God’s demonstration of His love and His strength in my life, I was reminded of the song that I had just been singing the week before with my little granddaughter. You know it, and it goes like this: “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong; they are weak but He is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so.”
Memories
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“What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, do; and the God of peace will be with you.” — Philippians 4:9
As humans we are not programmable computers with bits and bytes. Yet memories are indelibly etched in our minds and are recreated just like bringing up a document on a Mac or PC. But we relive memories through our senses. Sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing can restore a forgotten moment in our mental “flash drive” and cause happiness, or panic and fear. You might hear a particular song that takes you back to school days, perhaps the prom or a special dance. Baking peanut butter cookies, or hot oatmeal on a cold winter morning might find you in the kitchen where you grew up.
But unlike the programmable computer our memories cannot be erased. The bad thoughts come with the good, and, sights and sounds that frightened us as children can continue to create fear in us. Even as adults we can have memories engraved in our thought patterns from things we experience in battle that we’d rather not recall. Senses bring back a moment in time as if we were actually reliving it.
God knows how deeply etched those thoughts can be. Yet He wants to show us that He is present in our lives, in the past and in the future. He knows each “program” that’s been inserted into our emotional computers and wants to help us come to terms with the pain and hurt. The thought won’t be erased but the degree to which it controls can be diminished because He understands the bits and bytes—after all He created each one of us.
Questions to Share:
1. Share a memory with your spouse of something delightful from your childhood that is associated with one of your five senses.
2. Pray that you would each sense God’s presence in your lives—even in the memories.
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