Remember Me, O My God, for Good

Exo 17:13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Exo 17:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

Yes, God said it.

He declared His intentions, clearly and without ambiguity. His plan was to erase the remembrance of an entire people group from under the heavens, to consign them to history's compost heap.

What could possibly cause our loving God to feel so strongly about an entire nation?

Whatever they did, I don't want to do.

Every week, I preach the Gospel of Christ. "I heard an old, old story/ How a Saviour came from glory"

I preach about the Jesus Who won't break a bruised reed or quench a smoking flax, a Jesus so tender and approachable that little children felt comfortable climbing up into His lap. That is His nature...or at least one facet of it.

But I fear that many modern believers have forgotten that God is also a God Who will demand an account of us on that great, gettin' up morning. We will be judged by the deeds done in this body, the actions we record on this side of the Milky Way.

Nehemiah spoke for all of us when he closed his book with these poignant words:

"Remember me, O my God, for good."

You see, God can forget. He is omnipotent. He can do anything.

I'm glad He has a good forgetter; He forgot my sins.

But what a fearful and awful thing it is to contemplate that the lost in hell will be obliterated from God's mind and memory.

In Ezekiel, speaking of Jerusalem, God said, "my mind was alienated from her." Sin did that.

Sin separates from God. Sin creates distance between man and his Creator. In eternity, the gulf will be too great to span, but today, while we still have an open door of opportunity, we can deal with the sin problem through the New Birth.

Repent of your sins.

Be baptized in Jesus Name for the remission of your sins.

Receive the Holy Ghost.

Live your life pleasing to Him.

And you can rest assured that your name will be found written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

Otherwise...


Ecc 8:10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.