While strolling through our local farmers鈥� market, I noticed a lapel pin for sale. Here鈥檚 how it read: 鈥淗i, I can鈥檛 remember your name either.鈥澨� I immediately tossed a couple of dollars in the bucket and brought it home, intending to wear it every day. I haven鈥檛 done that but I look at it regularly and console myself that I鈥檓 not the only one who forgets.
It's really not that I forget the person or that I don鈥檛 recognize the face, it鈥檚 just that if they aren鈥檛 in their 鈥渦sual spot鈥�, I have to mentally transfer them to my immediate presence. One comforting thought is that I鈥檓 rarely stuck on identities for more than a few minutes, sometimes only hours, or at most, a day. Just the tendency, however, makes me realize that age truly is starting to creep up on me. 听More importantly, however, is the keen understanding that I need to cultivate those things that really matter in my life. Names may temporarily elude me but relationships with people continue to be an important and blessed part of my life.
Throughout Scripture we are reminded to that God never forgets: 鈥淕od remembered Noah,鈥� says the writer of Genesis; 鈥淩emember His marvelous works鈥� exhorts the writer of 1 Chronicles; 鈥渞emember my chains鈥�, penned Paul, writing to those early Christians from his prison cell; and Peter, in defending his faith before those who wanted him to stop proclaiming Jesus Christ, wrote 鈥渢hen I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said鈥�.鈥�
There are times when we forget the goodness of the Lord but how comforting to know that He never forgets us!
鈥淸The Lordanswered] 鈥淐an a woman forget her nursing child and have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.鈥� Isaiah 49:15
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