“Everyone remembers where they were when they heard….” How would you finish that sentence? Older people might finish it with “Kennedy was assassinated.”, still others “…the challenger disaster.” many more: “the towers were attacked on 9/11.”.
We remember such dramatic events because they are said to “change the world” or at least the way we view the world. Last Sunday morning we saw Moses tell God’s Old Testament people that they should…
“Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children.” (Deut 4:10)
That was the day they received the 10 commandments directly from the LORD and it was a day that none of them were to forget.
Why?
As we heard Moses explain, not only were they not to forget what the LORD said, but they were not to forget that they saw Nothing!
There is no way that any human mind can accurately conceive what the LORD is like. Indeed, no-one could “see Him and live.” (Ex 33:20). Our faith and trust in the LORD is not to be in what we perceive with our fallen human nature, limited perspective and poor memories, but in what He says.
When He graciously came and lived among us in the person of the LORD Jesus, His disciples were not struck by His appearance but by His words: as some people refused to accept what He said He challenged His disciples.
They answered:
“Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.” (John 6:68)
Don’t forget: That’s still true today!
Spencer Shaw