| How easily and quickly we forget the Lord’s mercies to us. It is written of the children of Israel that “they remembered not His hand, nor the day when He delivered them from the enemy.” Many Christians become so engrossed in their business and at being successful in this world that little time and energy is left to think upon the Lord and His blessings and mercies. “Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping His commandments, and His judgments, and His statutes, which I command thee this day: lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein … and all that thou hast is multiplied; then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God.” May it not be said of us that “they forgat God their saviour,” or that “they soon forgat His works; they waited not for His counsel,” but may we rather be able to say, by God’s grace, that “I will delight myself in Thy statutes: I will not forget Thy word,” “for consider how great things He hath done for you.” |
