The Discipline of Remembrance

Follow Along with the Message

1. We tend to forget The LORD GOD is faithful and is a covenant-keeper       Joshua 4: 4-7

After miraculously guiding the Israelites across the Jordan, God directed them to build a memorial to reflect upon all He had done for them. They needed to pause to focus on Him and remember who was guiding them. These stones would serve as reminders to future generations of the Lord’s faithfulness and promise to His people. 

In your day-to-day tasks, how do you stop and reflect on God’s faithfulness in your life?

In our hardships, we tend to forget the Lord is faithful to His covenant. 

Philippians 1:6 “being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”

What challenges are you facing today that may be diminishing the promise of God’s faithfulness to you?

2.  God desires us to mark the truths of the covenants He's placed in our lives     Joshua 4: 20-24

“And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan. 21 He said to the Israelites, “In the future when your descendants ask their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’ 22 tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’ 23 For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea[b] when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over. 24 He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God.”

The Lord wants us to document what He’s done for us and to remember who He is and what He has done. Have you physically marked any of your “Gilgals?”

As Aaron reminded us, if we don’t mark our Gilgal’s, we run the risk of allowing sin to creep in and we will become complacent with God’s miracles in our lives. 

When rampant sin infects our lives, we can value culture over God. 

Are there ways that culture has influenced you over the Word of God?

3.  GOD is faithful to His covenantal promises through the person of Jesus, even when we fail to remember

God is in the business of long-term change of the heart and soul. He does not push us away or shame us but draws us in, lavishly pouring His love onto us. He desires that we be intimately connected to Him.

Aaron prompted us to ask ourselves how we are marking our “Gilgal.” Here are some ways to consider and discuss as a group:

Journaling, time away with the Lord, coming together, worshiping, praying in a communal setting, helping each other to remember and never forgetting what Jesus did and continues to do for us. 

Worship song to consider: 

“What He’s Done” Passion and Kristian Stanfill