FAITH CAPSULE: Lack of understanding is not to remember God; to rebel against God and not fear God.

1 Samuel 1

God does not forget but remembers all and nothing passes God without His attention. Man’s failure not to remember the goodness of God is forgetting what God can do. An example of forgetting God is identified in Psalm 106:7, “Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders, they did not remember the multitude of Your mercies, but rebelled by the sea, the Red Sea.” One that does not understand the mercies of God will lose the focus on what He has done; what He is doing and not remembers to fear God. The Israelites did not remember the multitude of God’s mercies but rebelled. Deliverance of man out of bondage of over four hundred years but not remember His mercies will not fear God. Rebellious  is the evidence of lack of understanding to fear God.
Man does not live life to fear God anymore. Unfortunately for man, God cannot forget to remember His own when His own does not to forget Him but live life in the fear of God. He is faithful in and He will not fail to remember when we remind Him concerning the works of His hand.
God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark and God Made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided. (Genesis 8:1) God does not sleep and He will not sleep concerning His children. The fact that God remembered Noah is not a demonstration of a forgetful God but it is an indication that God moves at His own pace and His timing is better. God will always remember with favor and visits with salvation. God commanded Noah to build an ark of salvation before the time of the flood and when it was time for Noah to land on dry land, He remembered Noah and made a way for him on the dry land. Have you ever considered the need for you to maintain trust and hope that He has not forgotten you?
The children of Israel were in bondage for over four hundred years. Salvation was not activated for the children of Israel until God remembered them. Do you have a need for God to remember you? God alone is able to remember man and dry tears of lack; He is able to remember and move man from stagnation into motion; He remembers to turn mockery into miracle. Hannah, in the hopelessness of her bareness, God remembered her. Eli the priest prayed for her at Shiloh and she returned. It is written, “Then they rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord, and returned and came to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her.” (1 Samuel 1:19) Remember that God will remember you, do not rebel but fear Him.

 Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to live life of remembering Him.