Never Forget What God Has Done

Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.

-Deuteronomy 4:9

The Bible reminds us of God’s commandments. The commandments demonstrate to us the holy standards which God expects from His followers. Ours is not a self-styled and free-form way of doing things in which anything goes. No, when we become followers of Christ we come to the knowledge that the Lord has for us certain expectations. There is conduct which is becoming the believer and there is conduct which is unbecoming the believer. And the Lord has made this clear as to what is and is not acceptable for us His followers. This is what separated and distinguished God’s people of the Old Testament from the nations around them. The pagan religions of that time often took an anything goes approach to their practice of religion. Such issues as morality, righteousness, and godliness were rarely considered. The Lord God told His people to come out from among that to a higher, nobler way; a way which honors God, strengthens family, builds community, and prolongs life. God said that if we follow His ways, then we will be blessed for having done so. We are then to take what we learn, apply it to our lives, practice it, live it, and pass it along to proceeding generations. God told His people that they were to pass this knowledge on to their children that it would prolong their days.

Let us pray that a revival will break out across our land and spread everywhere. We must pass what the knowledge of God on to those who will come after us. If we love the Lord, then we will strive to do just that.