Deuteronomy 8/2, 11-20.

(Preached at the morning service in Kilskeery FPC)

I am sure it is not inappropriate for me to return after nearly 5 years since my retirement from this pulpit to speak upon the subject of remembering.

We are all too prone to forget the mercies of God. Thus we find the servants of God frequently engaged in stirring up the memories of the saints.

Peter is a good example.

2 Pet 1:12, 13, 15; 3:1 and also Jude, Jude 5.

The essence of remembering the Lord and the benefits that spring from it are found in Isaiah 26:3. "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee."

* Great harm and danger springs from a forgetting of the Lord. "Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God," Deuteronomy 4:23-24.

* I can do you no greater service for you than by seeking to prevent such a danger coming upon you. The effective antidote to that is setting a time for remembering. Let us consider that matter.