We've been thinking this week about the way the Bible places a premium on our ability

to remember.

And yet the question we've been asking and trying to answer in different ways is, how do

we do that?

It's all very well to be told, remember.

But how can we begin to remember when our problem actually is that we keep on forgetting?

And we saw that part of the answer to that is having our minds and hearts well start

with the knowledge of who God is and what God is like.

I wonder if you know the great old Scottish hymn that's called God the Unchangeable.

Here's the first verse.

Quickest gleams of joy and clouds of doubt are feelings come and go.

Our daily state is tossed about in ceaseless ebb and flow.

No mood of feeling form of thought is constant for a day, but thou, O Lord, thou changeest

not, the same thou art all way.

Those are the words of a man who found himself in difficulties, struggling and eventually

realizing that he had forgotten something.

And that was that his Lord was the same yesterday, today and forever.

And it was that knowledge that recalibrated his thinking and actually recalibrated his

emotions and stabilized him.

And all because in the past he had stored up scripture in his mind and heart.

I don't think it's possible to overemphasize how important that is for days when we may

be forgetful.

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