"lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted." Proverbs 31:5
Have you ever forgotten something really important? Have you ever been in a position where something you needed to do or someone you needed to call or even pray for or visit passed your mind like the spirit of Death did the children of Israel in Egypt? Have you been somewhere and then remembered somewhere else you needed to be? Say a child's event/ sport, picking up a child or someone else? A phone call that would have made someone's day?
I am the MOST renowned forgetful person I know! If I don’t put it in my phone or write it on my planner, I will forget it! If I don’t remember to look on my planner, I will forget it! I am currently praying and accepting prayer requests for this bondage! I will be doing something totally different and something will trigger a forgotten request or date I was supposed to be somewhere. I hate that feeling! I don’t think this is the forgetting Lemuel's mom was speaking of, but practically speaking, even a king, if you are in the public eye will get flack for forgetting dates and scheduled events.
Alcohol does make you forget. For a time, that is. First the depressing chemicals take effect and you forget that you are sad, broke, and lonely. You begin to do things you might not have done if not for the alcohol. You forget the sadness you felt when you came in because now the drink has dulled your senses. You forget the brokenness you have spiritually and financially as you begin to spend all your money on this drink and its counterparts. You forget the lonely nights because you find someone either who will take advantage of your drunkenness or is just as drunk as you. Yeah, you forget alright and forgetting is not something children of God should be doing. We need to remember so that when we come back to this door we are at, brokenness, poverty, depression, lust, loneliness; we can move away from it rather than go straight in to it again.
We should not be able to forget where we are in our pain so that we can help someone else out of theirs when the time comes, for it will come! And isn't that what God commands us to do? Gently bring back a fallen brother or sister? What you choose to forget may be the very thing God needs you to remember. Don’t dull down your pain, lest you return to it again and again like a dog returns to its vomit.
Father God, help me to remember the pain I am in right now, whatever pain that may be. Help me to recognize it, stand to it and allow you to deal with it. Forgive me for the concoctions I have made up to forget what you need me to remember. Thank you for your everlasting love that throws my sins as far as the east is from the west. In Jesus name, Amen!
There are some who are in the midst of this drowning out their sorrows. You must know, as you drown out your sorrows, you drown out the Voice of God as well. His voice, though gentle and meek, can be heard in the toughest terrains, in the strongest storms if only you will stop to listen. He is waiting for you to answer. Will you? Pray this simple prayer:
God, I am a sinner. Forgive me for drowning out what You need me to face and ignoring You in the process. I know that You sent Your only Son to die for me because You love me. I know that He was raised from the dead so that I can live. I claim Jesus as Lord and Savior of my life from now on. The only thing I drown out now, is the voice of the one in the world because greater is He that is in me, than he that is in the world. Come live in me Jesus and transform my mind and my life so that I will not forget what You did for me! In Jesus name, Amen!
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