Choose to Remember

I remember the days of old;

I meditate on all that you have done;

I ponder the work of your hands. Ps.143:5

For David, undoubtedly he remembered his victory over Goliath, the anointing by Samuel, his victories in battle. He chose to remember that the great God he experienced then is the same God now. The Goliath-like enemy who has crushed his life to the ground in the present is no different to God than the one whose head David presented to King Saul in the past..

Choosing to remember is very difficult when the battle is in front of us and our adversaries are winning. But remembering is a starting point to arrest the slide into despondency; to remember when I had experienced the power and presence of God, to remember the stories in scripture of others who faced similar opponents, to remember the testimony of others who have believed and persevered and seen God deliver them from their enemies. 

There is a certain amnesia that can come over us when we find ourselves in the midst of the battle. It is very difficult to allow our minds to slow down and ponder on all that God has done in the past. But this is an important element in being trained for war, where the confusion of the battle is quieted by the clarity of the truth about who God is and always will be. If we acknowledge the truth that the enemy is too strong for us, this fact must be counterbalanced and overwhelmed by our re-collection of memories, scriptures and testimonies of God’s sovereign and surpassing strength.