“You have come to the kingdom for such a time as this.” (Esther 4:14)
The biggest lie I tell myself is: “I don’t need to write that down. I’ll remember it.” When I was young, I used to bore my doctor. To be fair, I’m not entirely sure I even had one. As I’ve aged, systems fail and I’ve become a “person of interest” to all manner of specialists. One of the systems that wanes most rapidly with age is short term memory. I don’t have a doctor for that. I’m pretty much on my own. I like to say that I have a great memory, it just doesn’t last very long. Can I get an “Amen!”?
Have you ever walked into a room to get or do something and when you arrive, you forget what inspired the journey there in the first place? Of course, you have. If you’re under 50, don’t be alarmed, but it’s inevitable to happen with greater frequency! In fact, with rapidly increasing frequency. They say if you go back to the room where you had the thought to begin with, what you were looking for will usually come back to mind. Problem is, I usually can’t remember which room I was in where the thought first occurred!
Another version of this aging brain issue is when I go to the place to which I was strangely drawn, and when I get there, I assume I’m there to do something in particular. So I do the first thing that comes to mind, only later to realize that wasn’t the reason I went there. I had meant to brush my teeth, but instead, I washed my hands. At least I did something. What I did wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t my destiny in that room at that moment in time.
That reminds me that you and I were located on the planet at this particular time in history to be and to do some particular things. With our waning spiritual memory we forget, or weren’t aware to begin with, what we were put here to do.
So, what’s to be done? We can either just stand in place and do nothing or we can do whatever comes to mind. At least wash our hands. Since we can’t recall our God-given purpose, we just stay busy doing other stuff. Not necessarily bad stuff, but not the stuff he intended for us to do. Since we’ve lost the script he wrote in eternity for us to follow, we make up our own story.
“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” (Ephesians 2:10)
Get back to the storyline you’ve forgotten. Could it be time to go back to the place where it first dawned on you why you were dropped here in the first place?
“Go back to what you heard and believed at first; hold to it firmly. Repent and turn to me again.” (Revelation 3:2-3)
Return to the place you first got your marching orders and see if it won’t all come back to you. Whether that place was a childhood Sunday School class, a youth camp, during your college days, or when your first child was born, revisit it and see if it doesn’t come rushing back to mind and heart.
“The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” (John 14:26)
What are you doing here? It’s not too late to remember and do what you’re here to do.
Only one life, a few brief years,
Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears
Each with its days I must fulfill.
Living for self or in His will;
Only one life, ’twill soon be past,
Only what’s done for Christ will last. CT Studd
BTW, If I’ve said all this before, forgive me, I don’t remember.
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