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-stopped

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. Twixt gleams of joy and clouds of doubt, our 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 changest 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. Reminds me of something that C.H. Spurgeon, the 19th century Baptist minister, once said

about John Bunyan, the author of Pilgrim's Progress.

He said, prick Bunyan anywhere, and he bleeds, bubleen.

And he was really saying that John Bunyan was so saturated with Scripture that it simply

flowed out of him because it had flowed into him.

You see, the Christian life isn't lived in a robotic fashion, in which we're constantly

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