Remembering
When God does something spectacular, He wants us to remember it. This whole chapter is devoted to the fact that God wanted twelve stones taken out of the middle of the Jordan river and placed on the shore where the Israelites camped. The purpose of the stones was remembrance. And the purpose of remembering was to fear the Lord. God recognizes that without specific items that cause us to remember, we will quickly lose our fear of the Lord. We need those times, not just weekly, but daily...almost hourly. John Eldredge has said that he wakes up each morning a pagan. I know exactly what he means. It is almost as if we are a chalkboard on which God writes but it is constantly being erased by distractions, our busyness, and our sins. Therefore, we need reminders...things that cause us to remember what the Lord has done in our life. They don't have to be stones taken from the middle of the Jordan river...but they need to be something we encounter regularly in our day...simple things that cause us to say to ourselves...yes God did this for me...He is real...and I will follow after Him.
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