Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our Reading titled God's Unfailing Memory was written by Wyn Collier.

A man owned more than $400 million in Bitcoin, but he couldn't access a cent of it.

He lost the password for the device storing his funds and disaster loomed. After 10 password attempts, the device would self-destruct.

A fortune lost forever. For a decade, the man had agonized, desperately trying to recall

the password to his life-altering investment.

He tried eight passwords and failed eight times. In 2021, he lamented that he had just two more

chances before it all went up in smoke. We're a forgetful people. Sometimes we forget small things, where we placed our keys,

and sometimes we forget massive things, a password that unlocks millions.

Thankfully, God isn't like us. He never forgets the things or people that are dear to him.

In times of distress, Israel feared that God had forgotten them.

Isaiah 4914 reads,

The Lord has forsaken me.

The Lord has forgotten me.

Isaiah assured them, however, that their God always remembers.

Can a mother forget the baby at her breast?

The prophet asks. Of course, a mother will

not forget her suckling child. Still, even if a mother were to commit such an absurdity,

we know God will never forget us. God says, see, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.

God has etched our names into his own being.

Let's remember that he can't forget us,

the ones he loves.

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