REMEMBER THAT
I said, Plant the good seeds of righteousness, and you will harvest a crop of love. Plow up the hard ground of your hearts, for now is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and shower righteousness upon you. But you have cultivated wickedness… (Hosea 10:12-13a)
Stop and consider that. We all have a lot of that’s that we remember. We don’t all remember the same things. Have you ever had someone say, “remember that”, like you should remember it? Those are difficult moments. Or have you ever wished someone would just forget it instead of always bringing it up. Worse yet, do things keep coming up in your thoughts that you would just like to let go, or better yet, get rid of! Stick with me, I trust the Lord to make sense of all of this.
In the Psalms, there are places where we are encouraged to pause and think of that. Jesus was always telling us to consider one thing or another. Hosea said to sow seeds of righteousness which would lead to love and showers of righteousness being poured out. But. There is always a but.
We have so many promises and so much great guidance from the Lord; we simply need to learn to pause and consider what He has said. Take Him at His word. Put His words into action.
For instance, we are told that God is for us. If God is for us, who can be against us. That is a great truth and a great question to consider. We don’t need to try and figure out why it is not working for us. We know God does not lie. We need to insert it between us and our circumstances and let it accomplish what God has promised.
What if we just considered all things according to that one promise? When we read Paul’s words about the thorn in the flesh, everyone wants to put a no answer from God in it, but what about God simply saying His grace is sufficient. What if we consider in all things, that God’s grace is sufficient? What about that? Consider that.
“That is the thing that I can’t figure out!” Often people get hung up on what they cannot understand so since they can’t figure it out, that is what holds them back. What if we trusted that God has it figured out. I often ask people if understanding the whole process would really help.
I will be honest and say that there are a lot of things I don’t comprehend and even if I had all the information I still would not understand! That being said, the that’s that God gives us to consider and remember are not complicated. Sadly, we are the ones that complicate them. We are Jonah. God gave Him a simple assignment, but Jonah did not like the prospective outcome. He complicated the whole thing.
I have perhaps complicated the simplicity of God’s instruction to pause and consider the words He has given us. Take time to consider what God wants. Ask, seek, and knock. His grace is sufficient, always. That is worth a moment of our time, anytime.