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Wednesday... It is so easy for us to forget.


Wednesday... It is so easy for us to forget.

Not when it is a fight with your husband or wife. We remember that and when we have been hurt by someone else but it can be different when something good has happened to us. It can be so easy for us to forget when God has done something for us, has taken care of us. 

Look at this story in Mark 8. In verse 1 (NLT) it says, "About this time another large crowd had gathered, and the people ran out of food again." And then in verse 4 the disciples said to Jesus, "How are we supposed to find enough food to feed them here in the wilderness?" And they said this to Jesus, the one who back in chapter 6 had fed 5,000 + people. There are just 4,000 + people this time. 

Why do we forget what Jesus has done for us? We wake up each morning in despair facing a new day with its problems that are a lot like yesterday's problems. Oh, yes, God took us through yesterday but it seems we forget that. And that is the way our enemy works.

Somehow we need to start each new day with a time of remembering what God had done for us the day before, of how He brought us through the difficulties that we faced yesterday.

Look how Jesus finished verse 1 and continued through verse 3 (MSG). He said, "This crowd is breaking my heart. They have stuck with me for three days, and now they have nothing to eat. If I send them home hungry, they'll faint along the way - some of them have come a long distance." He knows what is happening to us.

We need to remember what kind of God we serve. We need to remember what He has done and remember what He is like and how much He cares for us and what He can do. And our enemy doesn't want us to remember any of that.

Now looking at these two stories we see some similarities. The first had 5,000 + people and He took fives loaves and two fish to feed them and in this one there were 4000 + people and he took seven loaves and it says a few fish and fed them. He took what He had available and used it. And He will do the same for us. 

So let's do what we can to remember. He loves us and He has done so much for us and He is out ahead of us working things out in our lives for His and our good. And there is nothing in this new day that He can't take care of in our lives. So let's start our today by remembering what He did for us yesterday by thanking Him. Yes, it can be easy for us to forget but thanking Him will reinforce what He has done for us and give us confidence in what He will do. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning 

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