Don’t forget - 16 August 2010 |
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Judges 3:7 says that “the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and forgot [shcch] the LORD their God.”
To forget in this context is not simply to “not remember”. The people of Israel were guilty of much more than absent-mindedness. Shcch often occurs in parallel with “forsake” (‘zb), as in 1 Sam 12:9-10, Isa 65:11; Lam 5:20. It’s not a lapse of memory; it’s a failure of commitment, a neglect of obligations.
We “forget” the LORD not when we can’t remember the way to church, but when we decide that something else is more important.
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Posted by Steve Jeffery · Topics: Bible, Godliness, Minister's Blog