Don't Forget

Deuteronomy 31:20 and following, the Lord is giving Moses final instructions before Joshua takes over the leadership of Israel. God is telling Moses to warn the people that when they get in the promised land and have grown "heavy" from eating fruit and produce that they did not plant and living in houses they did not build that they will forget all the Lord did to get them there. We need to remind ourselves constantly that God has provided for us. Yes we go to work daily but without God's blessings we could see drastic changes in the next hour. We don't deserve God's blessing because of how good we are. There are people who are doing much more for the Lord than many of us. Think of the missionaries living in poverty; people like Joni Tada, a woman paralyzed from the neck down, who draws beautiful pictures with a pen in her teeth. I could go on but you get the point. During this Easter Week take time to remind yourself how good God has been to you. You probably do not have everything you want at this point but you are most blessed by Him and we should be more thankful than we are most of the time. Don't fall into the trap of only being thankful when your prayers are answered exactly like you want them to be. God knows exactly what He is doing and He is doing it at the exact right time. The sooner we believe and live we beleive this the happier we will be and those around us will be too.