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January 17

You’ve all discovered, I am sure, that the simple act of remembering becomes a little more difficult year by year as we become older. Names slip from us. Even a short list of things we have memorized and then intended to get at the store might be forgotten by the time we get there. Sometimes we need to be reminded.

God’s Word, the Bible, is probably life’s greatest reminder. Yes, without any doubt, it is. In his second epistle, the Apostle Peter opens the letter with an appeal to his readers and hearers to make one’s calling certain. He writes about being certain of one’s faith and making sure that one’s Christian faith shows itself in goodness, knowledge, self–control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love—qualities of life that indicate true Christian character.

Then Peter adds: “For if you do those things, you will never fall, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 1:10b–11). And as a kind of footnote in verses12 and 15, he writes: “So I will always remind you of these things

. . . and I will make every effort to see that after my departure you will always be able to remember these things.”

David, in the one hundred third Psalm, writes, “Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.” And he goes on to list just a few of God’s benefits to us.

It is good, I think, to be reminded of the many benefits we receive every day at the hand of our Heavenly Father.