I Forgot

I consider it right, as long as I am in this tent, to wake you up with a reminder.... - 2 Peter 1:13

When I first began to meet with my French language helper (back in West Africa in 2009), we developed some "power" words and phrases to assist me with my learning. I would then go out into the neighborhood and use these words or phrases to move the conversation along. For example, I used the words for "Please, repeat," "I don't understand," and "Slowly" a lot!

Now there is a new "power phrase" that I find myself using more and more, but, it has nothing to do with French. It is, "I forgot." While advancing years may bring increasing forgetfulness, we are all prone to "spiritual" memory loss and this is why Peter wrote about simple concepts that his readers should have already understood or could easily understand.

Sometimes we forget. We slip. We lose our focus on God's priorities, but His Word (if we use it) is always there to gently (or not so gently) remind us who and Whose we are.

Memory is the thing you forget with. - Alexander Chase