Let's Make A Memory

One evening my mother said, "Let's make a memory!" She took my hand and led me outside to the front yard. There we stood staring up at the blacken sky dotted by stars. She laughed as she turned to go back inside, "See, we made a memory." After all these years when many details of that particular evening was lost, I can still recall standing beside her in complete silence feeling somewhat awkward as we stared blankly at the stars.

It worked. A lasting memory was created.

God knows how to make His own memories that will stamp a lasting impress on our minds and hearts. Especially if it will serve as reminder of promises He's yet to fulfill. We read in Genesis 15:15 speaking of Abram, "He took him outside and said, "Look up at the sky and count the stars--if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."

It would be years later that Abram (later called Abraham) would have a promised heir. How many times did he glance up at the darken heavens with the stars brightly lit up to remind him of the many nations that would come from this one single promise? Whenever he was weary or discouraged just one glance up in the skies would remind Him of the night God called him out of his tent to make a memory. A memory to carry him through some very difficult and challenging seasons.

But it was more than a memory that was made that night with God standing beside his friend. It says, "And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness." (verse 6, KJV). A reminder of the promise for Abraham was an opportunity to believe God, to take Him at His word. After all, He created the stars and calls them all by name! (Psalms 147:4) Abraham moved beyond a memory to being memorialized as a man of great faith.

Beloved, when God creates a memory we can be sentimental and look back fondly on what could have been or we can believe God with anticipation of Him fulfilling His word. Remember this promise, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." (Hebrews 11:1, KJV). It's time to let God make a memory that will move us to great faith in a faithful God.