Friday, November 15, 2013

Forgetting to Remember

Experience is the most vilified necessity of your life. Religion promotes works (activity) while demoting experience (the result of activity). At its base level, a moment of servant hood provides God opportunity to form within us what can never be learned by mere meditation and contemplation. So religion creates confusion, working against itself to create a system that creates structure by confined activity. God is constantly working, loving, creating, in the most intimate and beautifully hidden ways to place memorable moments in our lives that anchor us into His heart. In the Old Testament man is admonished to pass down in declaration what God has done before so that the now generation lives with the awareness of what He is doing now and will do tomorrow. In the New Testament Jesus maintains this priority by commanding the disciples to remember again and again. Even communion is given for the purpose of remembering what He has done. We are told to remember because He knows that it within your capacity to forget. I'm convinced that the ability to forget is not a glitch in put design, but a gift that we abuse when the mind is not renewed. In 2 Peter 1:9 we are told that the only reason we lack in the area of virtues is that we tend to forget how pure we really are.

1 comment:

Kathleen Schmeuszer said...

Love this! I wrote a book with a chapter on this theme. consider 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 and James 1:23-25 two scriptures on mirrors or what we see when we look at ourselves. One sees Him and the finished work and the other sees "his natural face" and forgets what kind of man he is. this is the forgetful hearer who dosen't "do" the word. If we want to be "do-ers" and not forgetful hearer's we will "look" at Him in us!


Good word Bill