MISREMEMBERING

Read: NUMBERS 11:4-23

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Bible in a year: Mark 4-5

Events that occur in everyday life are spontaneously recorded in the mind, forming memories. Therefore, we do not suddenly forget an event, unless we are senile due to old age. At present, there are many elderly people who still have good memories. Memory enables us to remember the past, for example when we first met Christ or our first meeting with a partner.

From Egypt, the Israelites journeyed towards Canaan, passing through the desert. During the journey, they often complained to the Lord. One of them was about not being able to eat meat (v. 4). At that time, they thought that living in Egypt was better than following the will of the Lord. Surprisingly, because during their time in Egypt they were enslaved! Every day they were asked to make a number of bricks, and if they were not finished, they would be beaten (see Ex. 5:14). Certainly, the Israelites did not have a problem with memory, they just misremembered. They remembered Egypt not as a prison full of torture, but as an ideal land where they were free to enjoy fish, cucumbers, watermelons, leeks, onions, and garlic (v. 5). They remembered various foods, not pain and tears, nor the miraculous deeds done by the Lord to set them free.

The children of God should be the happiest people in the world. Ideally, words of gratitude should always be heard from their mouths. If instead we often complain, it is very possible that we have also misremembered. We only remember hardship and problems. Starting today, let us fill our memories with the goodness of the Lord. Then complaints will stop, and our hearts will feel joy.
-LIN/www.renunganharian.net

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BLESS THE LORD, O MY SOUL, AND FORGET NOT ALL HIS BENEFITS!-Psalms 103:2

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