Forgetting God

It is so much easier to remember God when in the middle of a firestorm. You've just lost your job, your house is about to be foreclosed on, you're facing heart surgery, your doctor just used the "C" word, your spouse just walked out on you...  In those moments, the words "Dear God" roll off the tongue so easily. 

But later, after He has blessed you with another job or a better opportunity, when somehow He's provided you with a way to keep your home, after you've recovered from surgery, incredibly you've survived cancer or you've found new life without your old spouse, somehow now you begin to think how resourceful you were or how much stronger you were than you thought. 

When the storm is over and the sailing is smooth again, how easy it becomes to rely on your own nautical skills, as if you were the one that came to your own rescue or that you were the one that calmed the storm. Your cry to The Lord becomes faint and the memory of His hand in the storm fades. God provides and we forget. 

The words Moses originally spoke to the ancient Israelites, are just as applicable today, "When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God" (Deut 8:10-11).

One of two things is likely to follow our memory loss: 1) Thinking we were able to control our circumstances, we face the next storm alone and fail; or 2) Forgetting God brought through the last catastrophe, we tremble in fear as the next storm cloud looms on the horizon.  

We forget that we are not in control of life and fail to remember that we don't need to be because God is in control and that He wants to bless us if we will only turn to Him. Jus' Sayn.