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Beware lest you forget the Lord (YHWH) your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today;
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To paraphrase today’s verse, read the word, stay in the word, and do the word or you will forget the word—the Word made flesh who dwelt among us, Jesus! {Jn.1:14}

The Hebrews who had seen the incredible works of God, all done to set them free from the bondage of Egypt at the hand of the Pharaoh did not remember His abundant kindnesses. They forgot! Including the parting of the Red Sea, the destruction of the enemies army, and then the manna from heaven and more! And God called it rebellion! {Ps.106:7} And we need to not forget that rebellion is as witchcraft. {1Sam.15:23}

The Lord said that He would never forget us, His people. He said that He had inscribed us on the palms of His hands. {Is.49:15-16} Every stroke of the hammer that nailed Jesus to the cross was writing our names indelibly and eternally on His hands! We have been instructed to write God’s mercy, kindness and truth on the ‘tablets of our heart’ {Prov.3:3} so that we will never forget Him!

Sparrows are little birds which are sold cheaply and yet not one of them is forgotten by God as Jesus said. {Lk.12:6} And the Lord went on to say that the Father knows every hair on our head in the following verse! Yet, as today’s verse says, it is clear and it is true that if we don’t keep His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes we will forget Him! Our relationship with God—our faith—is certainly not a part time affair! It is not a “Sunday” religion, he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no man. {1Cor.2:15} All things, all the time!


So, as the apostle Paul wrote in his second letter to the believers in Corinth, “Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?” {2Cor.13:5} Paul also said: “For not the hearers of the Law are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.” {Rom.2:13} And James wrote:

“But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.” (James 1:22-24)

TODAY IS THE DAY THE LORD HAS MADE