Remember when....

 Greetings to you all  in the  name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     Ecclesiastes 12:1 says, “ Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them”

     A lady goes up and down the hallway almost every day calling out for her “Daddy.”  She was at our door one day and was looking for him and Diane opened the door and said, “He is dead.”  She gasped in shock for a moment and then went on her way, still calling out for her Daddy.  She has no short term memory at all.  Many have to be led to by the hand to the meal time and hen led back to their rooms after they eat or to sit in the living room and watch the large screen TV which seems to go in one ear and out the other.  Such is life at an assisted living facility, and one by one they pass away.

     I received an email recently that requires me to think back over forty years and to remember how things were.  It is a challenge do me but will try ro do my best to fulfill the request.  The above passage is one of my favorites from verse one tro verse eight.  Notice in particular, the words, “...in the days of thy youth.”  The Lord used me to begin certain ministries especially in regard to youth work, one of which was the AWANA program.  Id a child goes through the entire program from Cubbies throughRTeens, they will have memorized over a thousand verses of Scripture.  The memory banks of the youth need o be filled with verses of Scripture as these verses will emain with them when they are old.  The “Preacherr” exhorted us ro remember God when we are young and no rto wait until we get older and moe serious in our lifestyle.  When the memory begins to fade, only those things that have been embedded in our minds will survive.  Music is one of the last things to leave the memory.  Parents need to be a part of the training up of a child in the ways of the Lord.  Grandparents also need to be faithful in living out the Word of God and to be continually teaching the children the Word of God and then also by living it out.  How is your memory when it comes to the Scriptures?  How many verses can you still say after having memorized to many AWANA verses?  Praise od to day for His Word and rhe impact it has on rhe lives of both young and old.