Remember

Day 40: Deuteronomy 31-34

We all sin and fall short of the glory of God.

When we do sin, we often try to forget, to get over it, to forgive ourselves. We don't want to remember. Maybe it's too painful to remember what we did or who we hurt. Maybe we don't want to remember our former selves. Maybe we don't even want to remember what we've done.

But Moses tells the Israelites to remember, "remember the days of old" (32:7), to remember how God delivered them, what God did for them. How he brought them out of slavery, how he saved them over and over again. How even when they were sinful and disobedient, He still showed them love and mercy.

Maybe instead of trying to forget our past sins, we could remember them. We don't need to remember them to make us feel guilty about them or to remember them for their own sake but instead we can remember how God saved us, how he loved us through our failures, how he remained faithful to us in spite of our mistakes.

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I will close with the last verses in Deuteronomy: Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, who did all those signs and wonders the LORD sent him to do in Egypt—to Pharaoh and to all his officials and to his whole land. For no one has ever shown the mighty power or performed the awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel (34:10-12). 

What a tribute to Moses.