"Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely that you do no forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them."
Deuteronomy 4:9
These are words Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they were on the edge of the Promised Land. A Promised Land that Moses himself would never enter.
But Moses knew something important and he was making sure the Israelites knew it.
Moses was telling the Israelites the importance of them remembering what God had brought them out of and how he had cared for them as they wandered in the desert. Moses knew that they would be in trouble if they ever forgot that. It is something they needed to recount to other people - to pass the stories on.
We can learn from these words of Moses about our lives as well. Just as Moses told the Israelites they needed to remember what God had done for them and how He had rescued them, and that they needed to share those stories with other people, we need to do the same.
We need to make a point to remember what God has rescued us from.
We need to make a point to remember how God has cared for us.
And we need to share those things with other people.
When we don't remember and we don't share those things with other people, we quickly find ourselves in trouble. We lose sight of who God is, and who He has created us to be.
We have to make sure we remember these things - write them down, share them with other people.
"Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely that you do no forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them."
Deuteronomy 4:9
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