Lest we forget ...

I really hope that your day today was spent like mine ... remembering 9/11 and praying for all the families affected as well as for our Troops and our leaders as they continue to fight the war on terror, on our behalf ... praying for God’s Kingdom to come to right the wrongs, but also praying for abundant forgiveness in all of our hearts, as we need to know how satan uses unforgiveness to continue stealing from lives for many years if it’s not laid down and covered with the blood of Christ. I woke up this morning burdened and heavy ... I think I was anticipating to be fully bombarded with media coverage of the somber anniversary, after all there were days and weeks dedicated to recent high-profile funerals ... but the only networks where I found any coverage, AT ALL, was on Fox News and the History Channel ... the History Channel?! Oh, lest we forget ...


As I watched the History channel specials, I was amazed at how many details of that day I had never heard before ... how many different perspectives there were to be told ... I’m sure that we’ve all heard that nearly 3000 people were killed when the towers tumbled, but have you ever heard that more than 20,000 were saved!?! ALL of the salvation stories were filled with miraculous ‘coincidences’ ... ALL OF THEM ... listening to them, I had goosebumps all over my body, while the tears flowed freely. There is no way that you could mistake God’s presence on that day ... or the fact of how many lives He saved, physically and spiritually ... Oh how satan wants to steal from His glory and to confuse us by trying to blame his stealing and the many losses on God so that we will cry out ‘where is our God’ ... rather than to see the multiple victories in God’s grace that we may cry out ‘how merciful is our God’ ... Lest we forget ...


I couldn’t help but reflect on how easily we humans ... not just Americans, but the human race as a whole ... how easily we forget what we have seen and heard ... Never mind how we forget what we’re told, but you would think the things we actually see and hear would not fade as quickly ... my faith walk has had some testimony of this as I have struggled to remember who God is, even though I fully know what He has said and has done ... 9/11 is another example I think to which we can all see this weakness in ourselves. There are so many teachings in the Bible where we are told to ‘remember’ and/or to ‘teach others’, ‘teach your children’ ... remember, remember, remember ... He knows us well, but I also think He knows our enemy well ... How many know that the lessons from our Creator are not so that we will be bound by rules, but so that we would be FREE from bondage ... so that we may walk in VICTORY in all that satan schemes against us ... He knows that satan uses our weaknesses, like short memory, to distract ... to discourage ... to bring discontentment ... Ultimately to pull us away from God and the truth that HE IS GOOD and HE IS ABLE! We must get wise to satan’s game plan and realize that his toolbox is full of all the same tricks ... actually, he really is pretty limited and uncreative if you think about it ... Lest we forget ...


This past week, God has really been challenging me with this thought ... if we guarded the gifts that He gives us in the same way that we guard our earthly possessions, how much more would we be ... how much more could we do? We go to great lengths to secure our homes, our possessions, our kids, our finances ... but how do we protect our hope ... our joy ... His love for us, or our peace ... How easily do we allow our circumstances to steal these from us? We just allow satan to take them at will, not giving up much of a fight at all ... he walks in, walks out and we mope around like there’s nothing we can do about it. What if we took what we have SEEN our Lord and Savior do ... or what we have HEARD Him say to us in the Word or in us and around us ... what if we used all that we know to be true and posted it up as a strong guard around our hope, our joy, our love and our peace and said ‘no way satan ... you’re not getting these from me because I KNOW the truth!’ What if ...

Psalm 61:3
For you have been my refuge, a strong tower against the foe.

He is good ... He is great ... He is big ... He is mighty ... He is strong ... He is just ... He is loving ... He is kind ... He is merciful ... He is purposeful ... He is all knowing ... He is in control ... He is on the move ... and He’s coming soon ... Lest we forget.




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