November 11, 2002 Monday
Remember

When the time comes in your life that you have reached the point of exhaustion (physically or spiritually) what is your reaction? Jonah said from the belly of the great fish, "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD" (Jonah 2:7). Sometimes God will bring us to such a point in our life to draw us closer to Himself. Sometimes though we bring ourselves to this point of fatigue through our own failures and disobedience to the LORD, but we can rejoice and praise God because even then He wants to use that situation to bring us closer! However, this doesn't always happen because there is a response that is required on our part that we so often forget; when Jonah came to this point in his life he simply "remembered the LORD". It's so easy to forget the LORD in our lives, especially in what we like to call the "small things", but a truth we need to grasp tightly in our hearts is that the repeated failure of forgetting the LORD in these "small things" is what eventually leads to forgetting Him in the "big things". We desperately need to remember the LORD in every part of our life, through the big and small decisions we make every day. In the Old Testament, the children of Israel often remembered the LORD by burning incense unto Him which ultimately illustrated the fact that their hearts, thoughts, and prayer were continually fixed on Him alone and were always rising upwards to Heaven. Can this be said of you?