We naturally forget. We forget both people's unfaithfulness and God's faithfulness.  We must put ongoing effort into remembering both God's attributes (like His love and power), and God's faithfulness in our lives.  When we are deceived, we trust people too much. We lean on them and when they let us down, we stumble. Remembering the unfaithfulness of mankind keeps us from leaning on people too much.  Remembering God's faithfulness (our testimony) is part of the process of overcoming Satan. (Rev 12:11). 

●     EARTHLY PARALLEL 1:   Forgetting God's faithfulness: Over the years, our friends and family have shown love to us, and cared for us in many ways. However, when they do something hurtful, it is not natural for us to look at that event in light of all the good they have done.  Their current action and our pain tend to be all we are thinking about at the moment. It is best to look at the painful moment through the eyes of the entire relationship of someone who cares for us.

●    APPLYING THE PARALLEL 1:  Even more so, when we experience pain, God wants us to have an overriding perspective of His love and faithfulness. This is why we are told to "remember" God's faithfulness and meditate on the attributes of God.  

●    EARTHLY PARALLEL 2: Forgetting people's unfaithfulness: Since our earliest memory, people have let us down in many ways. Yet when someone hurts us in some manner, we tend to respond as if it should not have happened again. Our thoughts may be, "How could anyone treat me this way?"

●    APPLYING THE PARALLEL 2:  We need to spend time understanding the message of the Bible. God created man.  Man sinned. Through Jesus, the relationship can be restored. In the meantime, as discussed above in "Difficulty in our lives comes from the fall," while we hope they would not, we need to know that people will let us down. We must therefore lean carefully on people so we do not falter when they sin. We must stand strong on God who fails no one. A big part of standing strong on God is remembering his faithfulness. 

Make a list of the attributes of God. (Love, power, etc.) How do these attributes compare to the limitations you face? Make a list of God's faithfulness in your life. Include answers to prayer. Write out how considering God's attributes would have changed your response, and your feelings about some of your past difficulties. 

●    Then Moses said to the people, "Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery, because the Lord brought you out of it with a mighty hand. (Exod 12:3)

●    They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death. (Rev 12:11) 

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