Seeking for the help of the Lord,
I direct your prayer for attention to Deuteronomy chapter 8, and
reading from our text verses 2 and 3. And thou shalt remember all the way
which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness,
to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine
heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no. And he humbled thee, and suffered
thee to hunger, and fed thee with manner which thou knewest
not. Neither did thy fathers know
that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread
only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of
the Lord doth man live. Deuteronomy 8 and verses 2 and
3. And especially what is upon my
spirit is the very first few words, and thou shalt remember
the Lord's use of remembrance, or our remembrance that is used
by God. Several times through this chapter,
the Lord draws their attention to remember, and to charge them
that they should not forget the Lord, and shouldn't forget their
time of bonding In verse 14, then thine heart be lifted up,
that's when all thy flocks, the herds, increased, and thou forget
the Lord thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of
Egypt from the house of bondage. And the charge in verse 18, but
thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, for it is he that getteth
thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant
which he swear. unto thy fathers as it is this
day. We are blessed with being made in
the image of God and being given a rational mind. And though it
is that even the beasts of the earth do have a memory, and some
of them a very good memory, they cannot process what they remember
like we can. And God especially uses the memories
that he has given us and uses it in many ways for our good,
for his honour and glory and in the providence of God throughout
the lands. Where would we be if we did not
have a remembrance? As we grow up from children,
we slowly add more and more things that we remember back to and
we build upon what we remember and We would think of memory
as a great blessing, but also something that is vital, that
is needful. Without it, we couldn't do our
jobs, our calling in life. It would be highlighted where
we have those that have afflictions in memory. that start to not
be able to remember, how confused they get. Those that have had
perhaps an accident and they can't remember their loved ones
anymore, they don't know who they are. Those with Alzheimer's
or dementia, the great affliction that that is, highlights what
a blessing it is to be able to remember. And yet there are those
times in our lives that we forget and sometimes it really is a
sin because we should have made remembrances or notes or diary
things so that we don't forget things that we should remember.
But other times we cannot help look back and to see that God
has overruled where we have or others have forgotten things
and used it for his good and for his purposes. And so it is
in that way I have had it upon my spirit to look at this word
here, I know of no doubt, preach from this word before taking
the whole context and the whole word, and of course we will look
at this in more detail a bit later, but I want to look at
three ways that God uses our remembrance. The first is to
bring conviction of sin and to humble us. The second is to strengthen
his people's faith. And the third is to order providence. The first is to bring conviction
of sin and to humble. This is the context here. The
Lord tells very clearly why we are to remember, why the children
of Israel are to remember, and we likewise, that which is written
aforetime is written for our learning, that we, through patience,
comfort of the Scriptures, might have hope. And the Lord says
that we are not to remember just some of the way, but all the
way, not just pick out some parts that we like to remember, but
to remember all the way. that the Lord has led us. It's
a blessed thing, like the children of Israel, to be brought forth
out of Egypt, into the wilderness, and to be as his flock, his children,
and he puts forth his sheep, he goes before them, and he leads
them. We can look upon this word really
in two ways. One is a command, thou shalt
remember, And the other, as a promise, thou shalt remember. In other
words, I will bring to your remembrance. And when we think of the gift
of the Holy Spirit, He shall bring all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever I have said unto you. But the Lord here sets before
the children of Israel and before us, looking back over those 40
years, that there was a purpose, there was a reason that he led
them. And they had to remember not
just the way, but what was done, what was the effect, how it worked
with them. And yes, included their rebellings
as well, including those things that no doubt when they looked
back, they were ashamed of. Those things to remember was
to humble thee and to prove thee to know what was in thine heart. And so with the conviction of
sin, when the Lord begins with a sinner, you might say, up to
that time, sin has not appeared sin. The Apostle Paul said that
I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came,
sin revived and I died. and that which was ordained unto
life I found to be unto death." And he says that sin revived,
sin was flared up by the law, sin that he didn't think he committed
or was capable of committing, these things were brought to
light. And then he could look back, then he could remember
the former sins, And certainly when the Lord called him on the
Damascus road, then that which he thought he was doing with
zeal for God, for the rest of his life he said, I'm not worthy
to be called an apostle because I persecuted the house of God. He could not forget that, he
would remember that. He remembered that Damascus road. He had the thorn in the flesh,
the messengers of Satan to remind him of the infirmities, no doubt,
God at that time. And it is only when the Lord
begins with a person that they then look back upon their lives
and they remember what they have done and the path that they have
walked. You've only got to think of that
with Joseph's brethren. You know, they had thrown Joseph
into the pit that sold him, and then 22 years had gone by. And then they go to Egypt with
the famine, and there is the ruler in Egypt, and he deals
hardly with them. They don't recognize him. They
don't know who he is. But he understands them, he's
speaking through an interpreter, they think he's an Egyptian.
But he hears what they're saying, and as he deals hardly with them,
then they remember the things that they had done those many
years before. We have it recorded in Genesis,
in Genesis 42, how the brethren were speaking, and Joseph, hearing
them. We read in verse 21, they said
one to another, we are verily guilty concerning our brother
in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us
and we would not hear, therefore is this distress come upon us. And Reuben answered them saying,
spake I not unto you saying, do not sin against the child,
and ye would not hear, therefore behold also his blood is required. We read that they knew not that
Joseph understood them. Why were these things suddenly
being remembered at this time? Because Joseph is putting Simeon
in prison, he is charging them that they were spies in the land,
and he wanted them to bring their younger brother to verify who
they were and they were distressed at what is happening. And the
Lord used remembrance then of thinking back those many years. Don't think, dear friends, that
many years go by after sin, that those sins by us can be forgotten. There's one blessed thing with
the salvation of God and the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,
when he pardons sin, when he forgives the sins of his people,
He blots them out, as far as from the east is from the west,
so far hath He removed our transgressions from us. We know that, we are
told that blessing of the gospel, but for the people of God themselves,
they still remember their sin, and the Lord uses it to humble
them, uses it to make them value the grace of God, and the mercy
of God. God brings to remembrance things
that we might think have been buried and forgotten. And sometimes
I find it, it increases more as the years go by. Remembrance
of things, things I thought I'd completely forgotten, never laid
weight at all. And then I remember these things.
I remember words. Do you remember here? He can
remember exactly the words that he said. And he's going back
22 years. And he's bringing them into distress
and sorrow. God's use of remembrance. What about David? When David
sinned in the matter of Bathsheba and with Uriah, it appears that
his conscience was seared. He wasn't in trouble. Even when
Nathan came, he didn't seem to perceive that there's a purpose
for him coming. And then when he tells the parable,
even then he's thinking he's speaking of someone else, and
he's so angry about the rich man that took the poor man's
lamb and slew that instead of many of his herds. But then the
Lord charged it, thou art the man. And then, then he would
remember, then he remembered, And then he's brought to repentance
and godly sorrow. The Lord uses remembrance. And the Lord used it further
because he said, even though he'd pardoned his sin, the sword
shall not depart from thy house. Every time, Amonslein, Absalom
rising up, all of the troubles he had would all bring to remembrance. This is because of my sin. This
is because of my way. I'm reaping what I've sowed.
Maybe it was so with Jacob as well. Jacob, you deceived your
father. You made out you were Esau. Did you not remember your father
saying, art thou my son Esau, my very son Esau? I am. Did you not remember that? Now
Laban, he deceived you 10 times. And your own sons deceive you
concerning Joseph that made out that a beast had slain him. Sin
is repaid tenfold. What we sow we bring. And the
Lord uses then these things to bring to remembrance and bring
as a conviction of sin. the Lord's dealing with those,
when he was on earth, he brought the woman, they brought the woman
that was taken in adultery. And they said, Moses says that
this woman should be stoned, but what sayest thou? And the
Lord said to them, he started, he just started writing on the
ground, and he said to them, he that is without sin among
you, let him first cast a stone at her, And then he continued
just writing on the ground. And they all went down. And the eldest to the youngest,
being convicted by their own consciences, they were remembering
their own sin. And what the Lord had done, he
was using remembrance to bring them into conviction. Have no
man condemn thee? No man, Lord. Neither do I condemn
thee. Go and sin no more. We are to
remember. all the way. Remember those humbling
things. Remember those things that are
painful to remember. Reading 1 John 1, if we say we
have no sin, we lie and do not the truth. If we confess our
sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness. as the Lord used memory, used
things to jog our memory. And as we remember things, then
it's caused pain and prayer and confession and concern. And you might put it just down
to you say, well, it's just memory. It's not something the Lord uses
in a call by grace and uses. for the end good of his people,
but it is. And this is what the Lord says
in the context here. All the things that he did were
for a purpose, and they weren't to be forgotten at all. They
were to remain, to humble them. and to know what was really in
their heart is not a great, beautiful picture, what is in the human
heart. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately
wicked, who can know it? Out of the heart, all those evil
thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, the Lord rehearsed all
of those things that he knew was in the heart. to our remembrance is used by
God. And the Lord knows how to, like
He did with those accusing the woman, tap into that memory,
unlock it, like He did with Joseph, how Joseph did it. The Lord uses
things to bring those things to remembrance. Where Satan would accuse, he
drives us from the Lord. Where it is the Lord's work,
painful though it is, it is for our good. And if you have those
things that you remember that cause sorrow, distress, trouble
of heart, know this, that God uses that remembrance for good
to humble us and to bring us as poor guilty sinners To be
like the publican, God be merciful to me a sinner. May we know something then of
the Lord using remembrance in that way. Every one of God's
children will know that they are sinners, that will also be
brought to know the saviour of sinners. His name shall be called
Jesus, for he shall save his people. from their sins. I want to look then, secondly,
at the purpose to strengthen His people. Our Lord, when He was to leave
His disciples, He promised the Holy Spirit that, I will pray
the Father, He will give you another Comforter who shall abide
with you forever. He shall bring all things to
your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you. The Word of God
brought to our remembrance. It's a blessed thing to store
up in memory the Word of God, but it's unlikely that we are
able to memorise it all. Some dear old lady in Now in
glory in Australia, she memorized the whole of Psalm 119 and the
whole of the book of Romans, and she could rehearse them all
off. Not all of us are able to have
that memory. There's a blessed thing where
the Lord brings a recall, unasked for, a scripture to remembrance,
just at the right time. When the enemy shall come in
like a flood, the spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard
against him. What is that standard? That is
the word of God, and I've known what that is. Where the temptation
is coming on one side, and before it has even hardly taken root,
then the word to combat that has come in, I guess, powerfully
to my remembrance in the other way. And so the Spirit has given
us a remembrance. We're also charged, even in the
commandments, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Remembering
to have one day in seven, that day that we're sanctified, set
apart at creation, changed to the first day of the week by
our Lord rising from the dead. The people of God are called
to remember that. in observing it, in ceasing from
labours of secular nature, and this of acts of mercy and of
necessity, and from pursuits of pleasure. It's a great blessing
on gathering together on the Lord's Day, and a blessing when
we're in the Spirit on the Lord's Day. But in one sense, it's remembering
it not just on the Lord's Day, but on the lead up to it, praying
for the services, praying for the Lord's servants that shall
come, praying that they might be given the word and that we
might be able to lay aside the things of this life before it. Perhaps a simple example Thinking
on the Lord's Day, well, what traveling do I have to do? Have
I got enough petrol in the car? Do I need to go out on a Saturday,
make sure it's full before I go out? Quite often that's a thing
that needs to be gone over, especially when you're preaching at different
places, perhaps in the afternoon, and you think, well, there could
be other calls upon you as well. But there's other things as well,
what we shall eat, how we shall order the day, the remembering
of the Sabbath day begins before the Sabbath day, the same as
if we would remember a birthday. You don't just wake up on the
birthday and think, oh, it's so-and-so's birthday today, we'd
better remember it. Anyone would think, well, you
should have remembered it before and got a present, a card, or
got something ready before. and not just on the actual day. There's a same in every day.
Remember the day of our death, the day that we shall depart
this life. Those things that the Lord has
set before us as most certainly will come to pass. We are to
remember them. We think of the aids that the
Lord has given us, the assurance of his remembrance. And many
times in the Word of God, the people of God are asking the
Lord to remember, not that the Lord ever forgets, but there
is a great reassurance to think that the Lord does remember his
people. And we have with the bow, I do
set my bow in the cloud. I will look upon it and I will
remember my covenant that I made with all flesh, so that there
should not come a flood to destroy all flesh. When he's given to
the Church of God, the ordinance of the Lord's Supper, this do
in remembrance of me. You do show forth the Lord's
death till he come. As oft as ye eat this bread and
drink this cup, you do show forth the Lord's death. And so there
is a chance to remember the Lord in that ordinance and not forget
his sufferings and his death. The people of God, their comfort,
their joy, their hope for heaven is so much centering upon remembering
what the Lord has done, a finished work, a fulfilled scripture,
a satisfied law, our Lord enduring the wrath of God instead of us. That's what we are to remember.
The Church of God must not forget it. And in the ordinance, the
Lord so puts that emphasis on it, as if he would say, you're
liable to forget, you're likely to forget, therefore do this
in remembrance of me. The Lord knows our frame, he
knows we're liable to forget. We think of the resurrection
morning, when they came to the sepulchre, And there it was empty,
where they've taken away my Lord, I know not where they've laid
him. And the angels, they rehearsed
what the Lord had said, how that he would rise again the third
day. And then we read this, and they
remembered his words. They remembered what he'd said
beforehand. And there it had come to pass,
Sometimes we might be brought into places like that, where
we are in trouble, tribulation, difficulty and trial. And the
way the Lord deals with it is to cause us to remember His words. Remember the word. In the world
ye shall have tribulation, in me ye shall have peace. Be of
good cheer, I have overcome the world. Words of help that He's given
in time past. Those are blessed times to have
the remembrance of that. I remember that time when my
mother died and I'd been over to Tasmania for the funeral and
came back and the Lord blessed me, favoured me that evening. The next morning I had a phone
call from my sister that my father had been rushed into hospital
with a heart attack and my heart sank. And then I suddenly remembered
the blessing of the previous night and rested on that. That was such a help, such a
support to me. And it's a wonderful thing where
it flows into your memory what the Lord has done, what the Lord
has said in time of trouble. And it's a real comfort. The
Lord uses that. Not a fresh blessing, but a remembrance
of what had just been given. Many times the Lord gave helps
for Israel. He gave them the Passover. He
gave them the stones after they'd gone over Jordan. They were so
that the children would ask them, what mean ye by this service?
What mean ye by these stones? And that was a prompt, a prompt
for their elders, prompt for their parents, to remember and
then to tell it and to pass it on to the next generation. The Lord brought us out of Egypt
by strength of hand. He brought us through this Jordan
on dry ground and brought us into this land. How many times
we're exhorted to not forget the past as they were told many
times, don't forget that you were bondmen in Egypt, and that
was to affect how they interacted with each other, how they treated
each other. Remember how your enemies, how
your taskmasters dealt with you, and may that affect how you deal
kindly with your brethren and those round about you. We read
this word, some, some they trust in chariots, some in horses,
but we will remember the name of the Lord Our God, what a blessed
thing to not be carried away with the way the world looks
for help and strength, but remember the Lord, especially in times
of trouble and times of need. We're not to forget the works
of the Lord, the heavens that is made, his marvellous works. Those are things that the people
of God are to Remember, remember what he has done. And it's to
strengthen the faith of the people of God. Those tokens for good,
those helps that he's given, those kindnesses, those deliverances
in time past. In one sense, the Lord has a
whole stock of things that he's done for his people that any
time he can bring to their remembrance and comfort them and help them.
So it's not just in conviction of sin, there's also to strengthen
the faith of the people of God, to know that they have recorded
in heaven all that has been done for them, the Lord's not forgotten
it, He remembers it, and He is able to bring that to our remembrance. Sometimes we might be asked to
spur the moment Can you tell your experience? Can you tell
what the Lord has done for you? And my mind just goes blank and
I can't say a thing. And other times I'll be driving
along the road, meditating upon these things, and one after another
comes into my mind. And those times are very sweet. And we know that recall, the
Lord is able to give that to us. We want to look at One last
one, and that is to order providence. God's care over his people, especially,
but the Lord's sovereign ordering of all things in the universe,
all nations, all peoples, things that we do, things that others
do, The Lord uses remembrance and forgetting to order these
things. If we go back to Genesis and
we go back to the account of Joseph and when he was in prison
and we had the butler and the baker and they had dreams and
Joseph interpreted their dreams. The butler was restored to his
butlership. The baker, he was put to death. Joseph, he said to the butler
that should he remember him and when thou art restored and speak
to me, speak to Pharaoh and tell him of me in this position. But we read at the end of Genesis
40, yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forget him. And the next chapter begins,
and it came to pass at the end of two full years. Two full years, and that butler
has forgotten. And then Pharaoh, he has a dream. And then immediately the butler
remembers. And then Joseph is brought before
Pharaoh. Why not before? The Lord's time
was not ready. And you see forgetfulness in
that butler, you might say inexcusable, but used of God for two full
years in the history of Israel, the history of Egypt is hanging,
the timing of it is hanging on this butler's forgetfulness. What about King Ahasuerus in
the book of Esther? And we have in that case the king not being able to sleep. but they'd forgotten to show
kindness or to reward Mordecai when he'd shown of the plot to
kill the king. The plot had been found out.
Mordecai had made it known. Astrid certified the king in
his name, but nothing had been done until this very time that
Haman is coming into the court And he's wanting to have Mordecai
hung on the gallows. And that very night, the king
could not sleep, and the very part of the records that he's
read is the part of where Mordecai was, nothing was done for him. And so the king's first question
to Haman, what shall be done unto the man? The king delighteth
to honor. And immediately there's the change. How hard that would have been
for Haman to go through the streets with Mordecai proclaiming before
him, as he wrote, Mordecai was on the horse, clothed in the
king's best apparel and his crown on his head. Thus shall it be
done unto the man the king delighteth to honor. What if that had been
done at the time when it should have been done? But it wasn't,
it was forgotten, and yet it was brought to remembrance just
at the right time. What about Nebuchadnezzar? The
dream that he had, he remembered he had a dream, but he couldn't
remember what the dream was. He had many times had similar
things, or perhaps it has been a text has come upon my spirit,
And I haven't quickly written it down. And I've known that
I've got a text that I've had upon my spirit, but I've forgotten
what it is. And I go asking the Lord, Lord,
remember if I'm to preach from this text, bring it back to remembrance
to me. And many times that prayer is
answered and it comes back. Other times it doesn't. But the
Lord uses the remembrance and forgetfulness. If the king had remembered the
dream, then he would have gone like he did to his wise men,
and like he charged them that they would do. They'd just make
up an interpretation long enough time in advance so that he'd
forget what they'd actually said, and they'd get away with just
making it up. But Nebuchadnezzar said, you
prepared lying words before me. You tell me the dream, and I
will know that you can tell me the interpretation thereof. It's
a good thing. I know I've often said this.
You show me the God that is able to bring a soul under conviction
of sin, and I'll show you the same God that will bring the
pardon and forgiveness of sin. It is the Lord that casts down
and the Lord that brings up. And Job said that. He knew that. God was able to do both. And
so the Lord is able to take away remembrance and to bring remembrance
back at the right time. An important event that Daniel
had to be sought, the Lord's name to be exalted, that Pharaoh
should say that the Lord, he is God, the true and living God. And even his own wise men to
confess that the thing that was asked was impossible, that only
the gods that do not dwell with men. Those that are from heaven
could even, could open up that secret. Sometimes it comes to
things in our own lives where, where maybe we are cross with
ourselves that we've forgotten something. I was exercised for
many, many years in Australia, right really from a child. that
one day I would return back to my homeland and come back here.
But I had my schooling, I had my training in engineering, and
when I was 24, I changed jobs. And only across the road, but
it was that next job that I was going to be in for 12 years before
coming over here. And the new employer said, he
said, do you want to take a holiday in between the two jobs? Oh,
no, I said, that's all right. Finish one on the Friday, start
the other one on the Monday, and that's what I did. My father
said to me, Roland, he said, weren't you wanting to go over
to England? And I kicked myself. I thought,
why didn't you? You had a golden opportunity.
You could have taken several months and gone over there. But
I didn't. It completely went from my mind.
And it would be another four years before I did come over
here for three months and met my dear wife. And the timing
was of the Lord's. The forgetfulness was of the
Lord as well. Another time over here, some
of you may know this, and when I was due to preach at a chapel
here on a Friday evening, And I forgot. They didn't ring up
to remind me. And so at nine o'clock, the deacon
rang up. He said, you all right? I said,
yeah, I'm fine. He said, well, you're supposed
to be preaching with us. And I forgot. And again, I found
that very hard. Why did I forget? But the Lord
blessed the reading service to those that were there, one particularly. Those times are humbling times,
but you think the Lord ordered that. Even though it was my fault,
and I was cross with myself, and it shouldn't have happened,
yet I can see the Lord ordered it. Things don't happen by chance. They don't. The Lord overrules
it for good. He doesn't excuse us, he doesn't
take away our sin, but it's good when we're able to see The Lord
has ordered this in providence. There may be things with you,
things that you're hard upon yourself with, and you think,
why didn't I remember? Why didn't I do that at that
time? And yet it's just completely
gone from your mind. There's other things that, in
one's experience, you can see how the Lord sometimes has mercifully
taken away a remembrance. and it has been for our good
and yet other times he has brought things to remembrance and used
that also for our good to remember at the right time and bless the
Lord for it and thank the Lord for it. The most important thing
is to remember to give God the glory In Psalm 107, write through
that. Oh, that men would praise the
Lord. Oh, give thanks unto the Lord. Men don't, they forget. They
take the blessings and don't return to give thanks. Where
are the nine, said the Lord, when he'd healed those 10 lepers?
Only one returned to give glory unto God. May have been good
intentions. May have thought, well, we'll
do that. We'll reply to this letter We'll tell the minister
of the blessing that we had, we'll encourage him, but time
goes on and we forget and we don't do it, and we never do
it. And we are to remember especially
the things that the Lord has done for us, and especially at
Calvary. His bloodshed, His rising again,
His intercession in heaven, that we have a friend above. He is. Ascended there, his prayer still
is, rather I will that they whom thou hast given me be with me
where I am. Still it is that they be kept
from the evil. Still we have his intercession
in heaven above. It's good to remember as well,
when we have loved ones who have departed from the truth, loved
ones that do not follow the Lord, that we can still pray. Sometimes
we might think there's nothing that we can do in a situation,
but we can pray. And it's good to remember that.
And remember also those instances of those we know where he has
called them by grace maybe years after they've left the courses
of truth and they've hardened their hearts, he brings to their
remembrance their upbringing and their house of God. One of
the ladies over in Australia left the chapel many years, and
then the Jehovah's Witness came to the door and gave her a book. And she thought, well, that's
their religion, but we've got our own chapel we once went to
years ago. And it was that that triggered
the remembrance of where they had been and brought back. And she's now a member there.
And so the Lord is able to use things the trigger remembrance
and it flows from that in providence, ordering of the Lord's time and
way and blessing. Maybe watch the Lord's hand and
watch what part remembrance and forgetting has in what the Lord
has done in our lives, in our experience, in our call by grace,
in our remembering those things that are painful, but also remembering
the blessings of the Lord. And we think this as well, if
the Lord brings it to remembrance at a certain time, is it for
a purpose? Is it for a reason? Should there
be acting upon that remembrance? Should there be a walking in
that way to show forth His glory and His praise? Sometimes things
can be brought remembrance in a moment of time that have happened
over a long period of time. There's once, and just to mention
this before closing, that I was greatly tried over in Australia
when I once said to my Dutch friend who lived with me, I said
to him that, you know, I believe the Lord is able to bless just
as much at home as in the house of God. because that's where
the Lord had blessed me most. And I saw his face, and he was
horrified. And I thought, what have I said? I'm not looking for, because
I haven't had blessings in the house of God, I wasn't looking
for them there. I went there, I loved the house
of God. I was taking the reading services
there. But I hadn't been blessed, I
was such a trial. And I cried unto the Lord concerning
it. And then one time in reading
the services, just in a moment, there was something that was
read, I can't remember what that was, but the Lord brought in,
as a quick succession, all the remembrance of blessings I had
at home. And as if he said, here, all
these blessings, here they are in the house of God. And it was
so softening, such a blessing to my soul, to have them brought
back to remembrance. so quickly, and in the house
of God, as an answer to prayer. Those blessings the Lord gives,
they flow from the high decree of heaven, and nothing is forgotten
by him. May we be helped to confess them
before men, and confess him before men, and to show forth the Lord's
praise. May the Lord then add his blessing.
Amen.