F is for a new Feature: The faithfulness of God.

This week my handsome webmaster (who happens to be my husband) added a fun new feature down to your right: This week past years. I love this feature, which enables me to look back at this week’s posts from all the years past on this blog. We sat together and re-read through the crazy story of Dutch’s Butt Paste incident, lessons learned as we navigated the job/church hunt, and reflections from retreats, movies, and songs. SO many things that I had forgotten all about.

This may sound bad, but as I sat with Jeff and re-read everything, I marveled, “This is good stuff!” And that’s not pride.

It’s good stuff because God is a good God.

Because God is faithful, year after year.

We don’t all have blogs (there might be two or three people left on the planet who do not :), but we all have lives. We all have stories. We all have lessons learned and insights gleaned and circumstances where God showed up. THAT is the stuff that builds our faith, the stuff that makes us sit back and say, “Wow, this is good stuff.”   This life-stuff that we’re in the thick of–it’s good stuff.

It’s good stuff because God is a good God. It’s all good when He’s in it, amen?

And somehow, friends, we must figure out a way to remember.  Whether we write or draw or journal or take pictures …

… or stack a pile of stones to remember the parting waters of Jordan, the miracles of God. Why? Here’s why:

²⁰ And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan. ²¹ He said to the Israelites, “In the future when your descendants ask their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’ ²² tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’ ²³ For the LORD your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The LORD your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over. ²⁴ He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the LORD is powerful and so that you might always fear the LORD your God.” (Joshua 4:20-24)

That ALL will know God is powerful. That all will fear our God. Remembering His work brings God’s glory. That’s why we remember.

So now, what “feature” can we add to our lives that will remind us of God’s power, His faithfulness, His love. Even just a sentence jotted down and tucked away can bring back a wave of memories and fan a flickering flame of faith.  Before “all the peoples of the earth” know God’s power we must first know it, truly know it, deep within our own hearts. Let’s remind ourselves any way we can.

Have a blessed weekend remembering His goodness. Thank you so much for reading.