Easy to Forget

We are not the first generation to forget about God. The oracle of Agur in Proverbs 30:9 knows of the temptation to “be full and deny you and say, ‘Who is the LORD?’” And also, so much of our modern lifestyle makes it easy to forget about God. We may think about cause and effect, but not about where cause and effect came from or why it keeps working.

Some people might agree that there is a higher power, even a God, but they assume that He doesn’t involve Himself in the nuts and bolts. Some people imagine that there is no such being as God, but if there was, He is unkind, or unfair. Yet the Bible reveals that there is one God, and “in Him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28).

Sparrows fall to the ground, and not one of them is forgotten (Luke 12:6). The very hairs of our heads are numbered, whether straight or curly and no matter how many more are on the bathroom floor than yesterday (Luke 12:7). Planets orbit without crashing, algorithms predict our searches (or hallucinate answers), water keeps flowing downhill, nations come and generations go, all because of Providence.

And this truth comforts us when we’re tempted to be anxious. It also convicts when we’re tempted to forget, fuss, or freak out.

We do not have to accept everything because God is sovereign, but we do have to accept that God is sovereign over everything. In other words, man is responsible, which also means man is responsible to acknowledge that he is man, not God.