Remembering the Lord: Write This Down

Do you journal?  Do you make lists?  Both are great ways to remember things.  I love writing and do some journaling, but find my life is not interesting enough yet still too busy to write something everyday.  However, it is fun to go back and look through the events of my life and my feelings at the time.  I often find that the words remind me of how my life has changed since that snapshot of my life.

God encourages us to write things down to remember them.  Since the Exodus from Egypt, Jews recite the Shema twice a day.  The words are based on the instruction from God in Deuteronomy 6:4-9:

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.  ⁵ Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. ⁶ These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. ⁷ Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. ⁸ Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. ⁹ Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. 

God instructs that we are to love Him fully, and obey His law.  We are to impress God's word upon our hearts and upon our children.  God then explains how we are to accomplish this: by talking about Him and His word constantly daily and by reminding ourselves about them, including writing them down where we can see them as reminders.

By journaling to keep track of God's help and provision, we can remember His power, His work in our lives, and His great love.

And that's something to write about.