How’s Your Memory?

Sunday morning retuning: Remember who you are. Remind yourself of this regularly. You are a child of the King, if you have indeed resigned yourself to this marvelous truth. May the Spirit you remind you often of His plans and purposes for you, but first of all His love for you.

How often we believe and allow our minds to be shaped by the things that speak to ourselves when we are simply repeating what others have said, what we imagined they have said, or worse yet, what the enemy has caused us to believe they have said? Should we not be more apt to believe the things that God, our Maker, has said? Unfortunately, too often, and not often enough respectively.

I read this quote in the book Humility by C. J. Mahaney we are reading as a staff then shared it on Facebook a few weeks ago.

‎"Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?" Martin Lloyd-Jones in Spiritual Depression

Something Pastor Myron said near the end of his message reminded me of this statement and I wanted to mention in this context as well.

So what’s the difference between listening and talking when you are doing it all? I think what Lloyd-Jones is trying to say is that we need to be active in this and not passive. Do not just listen to what you might easily believe, but rather work to diligently remind yourself of the things that you might even struggle to believe at times.

So how’s you memory? Do you more often remember the truth of what God has said about and remind yourself of those things or believe the lies you have listened to for far too long? Here are some things God has said about you…

I have loved you with an everlasting love;
I have drawn you with loving-kindness. Jeremiah 31:3b

Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
I have summoned you by name; you are mine. Isaiah 43:1b

You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 1 Peter 2:9

Jesus, help us to remember and embrace all you have said to us. Help us to remind ourselves often of these truths so we may come to really believe them and live from that position for your glory.

In Christ,

Pastor Timothy