"And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day." (Deuteronomy 8:18)
There's a well known learning curve that shows that in five minutes, much of the information we have taken in is lost. After an hour - two thirds of it is lost. And after a day has passed - 90% of it is lost. This is the curve of forgetting. UNLESS...we take action to keep from forgetting! With Thanksgiving only recently behind us and Christmas just ahead, these are great days to remember. There's lots of ways to remember things...pictures, video, celebrations, traditions, gifts, telling stories to name a few. How do you remember? Our family has a "blessing book". It's basically a blank journal that we keep on hand to write down special or significant things that we want to remember - like how God blessed us or ways He showed Himself faithful in our lives. Sometimes we're really good at writing in it, other times, not so great. But what I've found is that if I don't write, I don't remember. And if I do write, we find that when we read the book again, we are reminded of things we had long since forgotten!
Why should we remember? Because when we're faced with a situation that seems insurmountable, or we're in need of provision for our family, or we don't know how we're going to get through the next week, we can look back on all those other times that He came through for us in the past...REMEMBER...and that will shore up our confidence, our trust and our faith that He will be faithful this time as well.
I challenge you to take some time this holiday season to remember the faithfulness of God in your life...ideas He gave you, answers He showed you, ways He saved you money, provision that He brought your way in the form of a pay raise, new job, reduced expenses, deals, direction, wisdom, companionship. Find a way to commemorate, memorialize, remember these things so that you can pass them on to the generations behind you.
Deanna Koffler, Nine36 Financial (936 Financial)
