Remember!

      There are various things in the world today that trigger a response from a person.  It might be an aroma or a sound or something that you see.  When you come across these things, they remind you of something or someone else.  I remember plowing a field on a cool fall day and the smell of the plowed ground, the exhaust from the tractor and aroma of the falling leaves mixed together to form  an aroma that reminded me of someone, if but for a moment.  As I sat down today to write the devotion for tomorrow, I typed the date and immediately there was a picture in my mind of Pearl Harbor.  At that time, I was only 3 years old but over the years I have come to meet some people who were there.  I have seen the pictures and the sounds of recordings and the words of the President of the United States as we declared war.  Some things, you just remember.   Psalm 143:5 says, " I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands."  
     The Psalmist remembers.  He remembers the works of God.  Pearl Harbor is something terrible that happened in 1941 but do we remember the things of God?  Do we remember the wonderful act of creation?  Do we remember the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ?  Do we remember the death, burial and the glorious resurrection of Christ?  You may say, "We were not there." We were not at Pearl Harbor either, but we still remember.  The Psalmist remembers the works of God.  We should do no less than to remember the works of God.  Just look around you and be amazed at the sunset, the stars the plants and animals of earth and be amazed at what God has done.  Certainly, we should also remember at Calvary.  It was there that my sin was paid in full.  It was an act that I could never even come close to fulfilling, but He Who loved me, died in my place on the cross.  I was not there, but my sin was there and Jesus paid it all.  So, as you perhaps remember Pearl Harbor, may you also remember what God has done for you.  Praise God today for His mighty acts.