119:49-50 - "Remember the word to Thy servant, In which Thou hast made me hope. This is my comfort in my affliction, That Thy word has revived me.
Notice the writer is not asking God if He remembers. This is not a question it is a statement. Remember means to impress on the memory, to recollect, to record, to recite. The writer has put something in and God is bringing it back up. Everyday we make a deposit (spending time in the word) and everyday God brings back up what we have put in. Interesting timing for a few guys in my class. Everyday is a classroom; so what are we learning?
God's goal/will for us is to 'conform us to the image of His Son'. This is what the purpose of every day is. This is what 'He cause all things to work together' toward - sanctification. We learn by reading and studying His word. We meditate on verses to get all we can out of the scriptures. Then when we have the principle fully rooted in our brain God puts us through circumstances and trials so that what we have deposited we have to put into practice. This develops Wisdom and Godly experience. Not only have we learned it, but we have also practiced it. Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, Self-Control, all are perfected in trials and affliction. Christ was the perfect example and standard to these fruits. He didn't just do them...He was them. It wasn't something He learned and did, it was who he was from the core of His being.
I place my hope in the fact that God knows what He is doing with me. He will bring to my mind what I need when I need it. I will be comforted in knowing that His word will revive me, and that it is His wisdom that is applying it to each circumstance. Now I can look at each day as an opportunity to fully learn and 'develop' (developing wisdom) what it is to be 'Christ-like'.
Everyday is a classroom - He is the teacher - His word is our text... and we are all freshman.
"I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord"
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