forget Me not...

10 "And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build, 11 and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full, 12 then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 13 It is the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear. 14 You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you, 15 for the Lord your God in your midst is a jealous God, lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
Deut 6:10-15 (ESV)

One phrase often repeats in my mind is "be careful when life is going the way you wanted it to be". I remember someone said to me that in one of the sermon that she/he heard says that when life is going well and you stop pursuing God - that will be the death of you. And indeed it is.

The verse says "with great and good cities that you did not build, and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full, then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery." indeed, it is so easy to forget the Lord that had given, done and blessed us with all the things that we ourselves cannot earn/gain/do. It's easy to forget that these blessings are given for His glory that we may love and fear Him all our days.

At the moment, I can't share with you in details the happenings that is going on in my life. but I can share that life is going quite VERY well at the moment. But somehow i know very well that this won't last long and that i have to move on sometime in the near future. (this is regarding relationship btw...)

since i'm still young, i still admits that relationship plays a big role in my life. especially relationship with friends. my life is often defined by how my relationship is at that very moment. if it's bad then my mood will be too, etc. Not only that, my decisions are often based on how it will impact my relationship with my friends. Not because of what I know is good and pleasing to the LORD but because it will improve my relationship - my closeness - my clickiness - my happiness -my selfish desire.

and as I read this verse, I am rebuked, and I want to share this with everyone, because I know this is not a concept that we all like to talk about -but this is such an important passage to remember and to keep on reminding ourselves - because we can easily forget passages like these.

You know, God gives us the Scripture to show us - how much we meant to Him. How valuable we really are to Him. Even the rules and laws, were given because we are special to Him. Because we mean something that He would take the trouble to tell us what we need, and to warn us of the danger of doing what we like - because we simply don't know what we need.

I remember yesterday in class someone said "the moment we deny God - we deny ourselves and our freedom and enjoyment - because we cannot appreciate life without God". That is so true. But we are so easily swayed, we are weak and feeble.

Tasting the goodness of having friends that "cares" or money that gives us things we want or anything that fulfils our desire - or momentarily rids of that "empty" feeling inside - we straight away run to such things. We forget that those are God's - He gave it so that we can see Him and His goodness, but we give due praises to things and people of whom it is not due for. Not only that, we run after them - constantly chasing them like our life depended on it.

Imagine that, imagine that you have a son - and you gave your son a toy car. After that, your son stop wanting to spend any time with you -but rather the toy car instead. When you take the toy car away from him, he screams, he nags, he cries, he pour curses on you for being such a bad father/mother. And he forgets that you are the one who gave him that car, who took care of him gave him more than just that car but the food and clothes and shelter and all the rest that he needs to survive.

what would you do? how would you feel?

i shouldn't ask - because i know that the answer won't be pretty - and that is just who we are.

but God - this amazing sovereign faithful and powerful God....

I have nothing more to say - than to remember - "when things are going your way - don't forget the LORD your God - fear Him, love Him and bring back the glory to Him" because "with great and good cities that you did not build, and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant".

What do we have that He had not already given? did He give it to us so that we can turn our back away from Him and run after lesser things - or did He give it to us because He loves us so much? I say with full confidence it is the second.

ah and another point that was made by a friend in class "if God wasn't a jealous God - He wouldn't be faithful"

Prayer points:

1. LORD - even in my enjoyment, please don't ever let it lead me astray, away from You.

2. thank You for loving us so much that You would give Your One and Only Son to die for ungrateful and unfaithful people like us