God Remembers
God Remembers
Genesis 8:1
“But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede.”
This verse contains the first mention of the beautiful word “remember” in the Bible, and it tells us that God remembers!
During the awful cataclysm of the Flood, the most devastating event thus far in the history of the world, God still remembered the faithful obedience of Noah, and He even remembered every living thing!
We may forget many things, but God remembers:
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unjust. He will not forget how hard you have worked for him and how you have shown your love to him by caring for other believers, as you still do.
Nor does He ever forget a promise. The first mention of “remember” in the New Testament is the Spirit-inspired testimony of Zacharias:
Luke 1:68, 72-73
"Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has visited and redeemed his people……… He has been merciful to our ancestors by remembering his sacred covenant- the covenant he swore with an oath to our ancestor Abraham.
That promise had been made 2,000 years before, but God remembered.
God even remembers the sparrows:“Not one of them is forgotten before God”
Luke 12:6
"What is the price of five sparrows-two copper coins [Roman coins equal to 1Ôüä16 of a denarius]? Yet God does not forget a single one of them.
And He certainly remembers His own children:
Psalm 103:14
For he knows how weak we are; he remembers we are only dust.
Even after the children of Israel had gone deeply into idolatry, He could still say,
Jeremiah 2:2"Go and shout this message to Jerusalem. This is what the Lord says: "I remember how eager you were to please me as a young bride long ago, how you loved me and followed me even through the barren wilderness.
God remembers the evil as well as the good, of course. The one thing He chooses not to remember is the sinful past of those who have come to Christ for forgiveness.
Hebrews 10:17Then he says,"I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds."