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GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23
Esther 9:20-23
Luke 17:11-19
"Thanks for thorns
as well as roses…"
GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE
Mordecai wrote and sent letters to all the Jews dwelling across the entire empire of King Ahasuerus. These letters ordained that the Jews should observe the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the twelfth month of Adar every year. These days were to be set aside and kept as special days because in them the Jews rested from their enemies and their oppressive sorrow was turned to joy. What was to have been a day of mourning for them became a good day. And it was to be a time wherein they would celebrate with feasting and joy, send rations to one another, and give gifts to the poor.
After such a marvellous rescue and change of situation, Mordecai did not simply move on to enjoy his new status and safety. He also wanted to make sure that all the Jews would not forget their liberation from their ruthless enemies and eventual reprieve from them. So he made a point to pen letters to keep a remembrance of the month and days of their relief and joy of deliverance. And he made sure they did so deliberately yearly from then onwards. He even included that they should make it a time of celebrations with feasting, gifts, and not to leave out the poor. All Jews from then on would remember the goodness they experienced. Man tends to be forgetful creatures. After coming out of a stressful or painful situation, we often just heave a sigh of relief and move on to enjoy the new situation. Students pray fervently to God for help during exam times, those who are ill and in bodily pain cry to God moment by moment for recovery, parents plead earnestly for family and children problems, and jobless ones beseech importunately for a job. But soon after God has helped us out of the difficult situation or calamity, we forget what it was like and what a great deliverance we experienced from God. This ought not be so. We must not behave like the nine ungrateful lepers in Luke 17:11-19. It is especially important that we do not forget the great deliverance from darkness to light, hell to heaven, and from the bondage of sin.
THOUGHT: Have I forgotten to give thanks to God for deliverance?
PRAYER: Lord, I thank Thee for Thy help when I cried to Thee.
Posted in Adult RPG
Esther 9:20-23
Luke 17:11-19
"Thanks for thorns
as well as roses…"
GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE
Mordecai wrote and sent letters to all the Jews dwelling across the entire empire of King Ahasuerus. These letters ordained that the Jews should observe the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the twelfth month of Adar every year. These days were to be set aside and kept as special days because in them the Jews rested from their enemies and their oppressive sorrow was turned to joy. What was to have been a day of mourning for them became a good day. And it was to be a time wherein they would celebrate with feasting and joy, send rations to one another, and give gifts to the poor.
After such a marvellous rescue and change of situation, Mordecai did not simply move on to enjoy his new status and safety. He also wanted to make sure that all the Jews would not forget their liberation from their ruthless enemies and eventual reprieve from them. So he made a point to pen letters to keep a remembrance of the month and days of their relief and joy of deliverance. And he made sure they did so deliberately yearly from then onwards. He even included that they should make it a time of celebrations with feasting, gifts, and not to leave out the poor. All Jews from then on would remember the goodness they experienced. Man tends to be forgetful creatures. After coming out of a stressful or painful situation, we often just heave a sigh of relief and move on to enjoy the new situation. Students pray fervently to God for help during exam times, those who are ill and in bodily pain cry to God moment by moment for recovery, parents plead earnestly for family and children problems, and jobless ones beseech importunately for a job. But soon after God has helped us out of the difficult situation or calamity, we forget what it was like and what a great deliverance we experienced from God. This ought not be so. We must not behave like the nine ungrateful lepers in Luke 17:11-19. It is especially important that we do not forget the great deliverance from darkness to light, hell to heaven, and from the bondage of sin.
THOUGHT: Have I forgotten to give thanks to God for deliverance?
PRAYER: Lord, I thank Thee for Thy help when I cried to Thee.
Posted in Adult RPG