Remember to Remember

He said to the Israelites, “In the future when your descendants ask their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’  tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’  For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over.  He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God.”  (Joshua 4v21-24)

 During our prep month in June I challenged the rest of the LDP Leadership Team to start taking note of things that God was doing. Throughout the summer as I would see God moving and working I would simply jot it down on my phone. While I forgot to write them all down I was able to compile a fairly extensive list. To list them all here would take too much time and you'd find yourself waking up in a few hours after a nice little meddachschlop.

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While this list of things may not mean a ton to everyone that would see it it helped to serve as a reminder to me that I serve a living and active God. A God that cares about what's going on in my life. A God that is doing stuff in, through and sometimes in spite of me. Just like the story of Joshua I had something to continually remind me that God was moving. Too often we think that God isn't doing anything. It's not because He isn't it's because we're too busy focusing on ourselves to notice.

As you guys head back to school I want to challenge you with this: Take some time over the next week and reflect back on your summer. Make a list of things that God did. Put this list beside your bed or somewhere where you'll have easy access to it. Throughout your school year continue to add things to this list. Whether it's answers to prayers, desires put on your heart or miracles/blessings of other sorts write them down! During the "dry times" in your life let this list serve as a reminder to you of the great works of our great God. In those times repeat the words of Habakkuk:

Lord, I have heard of your fame;
    I stand in awe of your deeds, Lord.
Repeat them in our day,
    in our time make them known; (Habakkuk 3v2)

tl;dr

- God is alive and active; take note of what He's doing.

- Remember: IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU! Take your eyes off of yourself and see what God is doing.

What I'm listening to: Speak Now Jesus - Tim Neufeld

- CW