All the things that I love and hold dear to my heart
Are just borrowed they’re not mine at all
Jesus only let me use them to brighten my life
So remind me, remind me, dear Lord
Roll back the curtain of memory now and then
Show me where You brought me from and
Where I could have been
Just remember I’m a human and humans forget
So remind me, remind me, dear Lord
Nothing good have I done to deserve God’s own Son
I’m not worthy of the scars in His hands
Yet He chose the road to Calvary to die in my stead
Why He loved me I can’t understand
Just remember I’m a human and humans forget
So remind me, remind me, dear Lord
Songwriter: Mrs. Dottie Rambo / Performed by Vocal Union
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Oh, if only we WOULD remember what God has done! The blessings, the healings, the provision, the miracles, the deliverances, the protection, the guidance…along with all the love and grace and mercy! But, like the song says, ‘but humans forget…’. And so we ask our compassionate and kind ABBA Father to ‘remind me…remind me, dear Lord!’ I think there are any number of ways that God reminds us of all that He has done…is doing…and will do.
One of God’s greatest gifts to us (in my own opinion) is providing the Holy Spirit…the Helper, the Comforter. While Jesus was preparing His disciples for leaving them, He told them of God’s plan. One thing He said was,
“These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.”
John 14: 25 and 26
Jesus promised the disciples that the Holy Spirit would help them remember what He had taught them. The disciples had seen all that Jesus did and heard all that He had taught. And, since we too are disciples of our Lord, the Holy Spirit can help us in the same way. As we read and study the Scriptures, we can trust that truth will be placed into our hearts by the Holy Spirit as we are taught. He will convince and convict us of God’s will, and remind us when we stray from it.
The Holy Spirit does so much for us! True, He does plant truth in our hearts, convince us of God’s will, and remind us when we stray from it…but the responsibility to DO—obey—is ours. He reminds…we obey. He guides…we follow. He helps us…we do what is right.
So, while we surely can (and should!) ask for God’s grace in reminding us through the Holy Spirit’s working in our hearts, I do think we should be responsible to remind ourselves, too! A few things that I have purposed to do so that I am reminded are:
- daily Bible reading
Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips;
meditate on it day and night,
so that you may be careful to do everything written in it.
Joshua 1:8
- listening to praise and worship music
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts,
to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful.
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you,
with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another
with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Colossians 3:15 and 16
- spending time with other Christians
And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,
not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together,
as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another,
and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
Hebrews 10:24 and 25
- having Scriptures up as decorations in our home
And these words which I am commanding you this day
shall be [first] in your [own] minds and hearts;
[then] you shall whet and sharpen them so as to make them penetrate,
and teach and impress them diligently upon the [minds and] hearts of your children,
and shall talk of them when you sit in your house
and when you walk by the way,
and when you lie down and when you rise up.
and you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand,
and they shall be as frontlets (forehead bands) between your eyes.
And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Deuteronomy 6:6-9
{I would love to hear of ways that you remind yourself about our awesome God!}
Oh! And here is a great list of 10 BIG daily reminders:
- God exists
- God loves you
- Jesus died for you, and the Father has now bound himself to give you only good things.
- God sees you as perfect
- That is because of Jesus’ perfection…not yours
- You will die
- You will live forever in the new heavens and the new earth
- For now. you are an exile on the earth
- Nothing on earth is truly worth putting your hope in
- You have no right to be unhappy
(Follow this link to read the entire article this list was taken from.)
