Re-remembering

Hello Emmanuel,

My computer didn’t start up right today.  That is a great way to start a new day with high anxiety.  My laptop is several years old now and thus has all the work I’ve done since coming to Emmanuel.  That is a lot of sermons and meetings.  So any time my computer acts funny, I backup all my files onto my flash drive.  I learned that the hard way.  I once had a laptop suddenly die and lost 2 years’ worth of sermons. 

Do you backup your information?

I’m not talking about computers here.  I’m talking about re-enforcing what you know and what you believe.  There are those moments in life when humans act funny too—when there seems to be glitches—and we wonder what went wrong.  It is in those moments when we may need to take a breath and re-remember what we knew before.

I had the kind of October in which I had to do such.  I made myself re-remember the simple things about who I am and what I’ve learned:  I am not always in control of everything and to be okay with that; trust is the foundation of any healthy relationship; relationships are at the center of anything important in life; God knows all even when no one else does;  acting on what you think is true usually makes a bigger mess of what is actually true. 

Those are some of the basic matters of what I re-remembered.  What do you need to re-remember?  Maybe you need to write them down.  If you forget the basic lessons of life, you may end up going backwards.  God wants you to go forward.  Don’t lose your information.  God taught it to you for a reason.

God is Good,

Pastor Joe