God is not like us. We forget what we would like to remember, and remember what we would like to forget. Not so with God. Concerning the sins of all those who have trusted His Son, He says that “their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.” But concerning what we do for Him and His people, by His enabling grace, not one thing will be forgotten, “for God is not unrighteous to forget.” Our Lord said that “whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in My name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.” He will not forget His people. “Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.” Nor will He forget our prayers, for “He forgetteth not the cry of the humble.” And He will not “forget your work and labor of love.” It may be a labor of prayer for God’s people, as Paul told the Colossians that Epaphras was “always laboring fervently for you in prayers.” Be it what it may, “whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord.”
Only “a cup of cold water,”
Given in the name of the Lord,
Will meet us in His own presence,
Worthy to receive a reward.
Heb. 10:17; Mark 9:41; Isa. 49:15; Psa. 9:12; Col. 4:12; Eph. 6:8.