This week I want to think with you about some of the things that Scripture urges us to remember,

things that we shouldn't forget.

If you looked up a Bible concordance, I think you would find that the words related to remembering

and forgetting appear about 200 different times.

And obviously remembering is a fundamental Christian spiritual duty.

Some of these verses may come to your mind, probably one of the most famous, remember your creator in the days of your youth.

And there's another one I think should come to mind, but I'll mention it later on.

But first of all, a question.

How do you remember?

You know how people tell you you should think, but how do you go about thinking?

And I think the same is probably true of remembering. It's all very well to be told to do it,

but how do you do it? Can you really make yourself remember?

When I was a child, I was taught that if there was something

I needed to remember, I should tie a knot in my handkerchief, put it in my pocket, and when

I needed to remember it, take the handkerchief out, and I would be able to remember it,

and it worked for a while. Later on, when it stopped working, I developed the technique of going to the spot where I thought

I had last remembered what I had forgotten and sometimes I stood there for quite a long time

forgetting.

But what was I trying to do when I did that?

I was trying to trigger in my mind, trying to, as it were, click on the file

of the information to get it to open up so that I could remember what it was that I should be doing or thinking or where I should be going.

In other words, I was trying to stimulate my memory banks.

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