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| Great-great-great-great grandfather of Judy Coye Comings |
It
has been said of older folk that they remember things as they want to think
they were. In our postmodern era that can get you a doctorate in history. The
human memory is being retired. Can cultural dementia be far behind?
Who
needs to learn math facts when technology can calculate for us? Why learn rules
of grammar, syntax, and rationality when talking heads do our reading for us? Why
know details of events when it is more fun to adjust them to package the cause
of the hour? Surely there is no purpose in learning history chronologically. It
will be sufficient to give Memorial Day speeches to new generations who cannot
list America’s major wars in sequence, and stall at the thought of naming the
presidents since World War Two, and elect people to dismantle the Constitution?
And, with so many motivational preachers
on all platforms of social media, why maintain a working memory of the narrative
of God invading his universe as one of us?
Of
all the memory lapses that one is the most serious. Of all people, biblically
driven Christians should remember that adjusting the human memory bank has been
in vogue ever since Lucifer whispered, “Has God said?” Knowing that makes every
Christian responsible for deliberate memory care. There is no rationale for being
sloppy in knowing and remembering the record God has given of himself, his
cosmos, and his will. The New Testament is replete with admonitions to think clearly, study, renew our minds, think on certain things, and remember certain things. Such mental discipline is key to casting down false reasoning and
answering Lucifer’s challenge. Every Memorial Day, for one who trusts Jesus
Christ, needs to include an overarching commitment to sharpen our memory skills concerning the sacrifices on the battle field and to sanctify those memories with a robust grasp of the Word of God.
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