Are You Suffering From Spiritual Amnesia?

Are you suffering from Spiritual Amnesia?

There are days where life throws me a curveball and I cannot move, barely breathe and are at a loss for words; struggling to have hope, feeling down, defeated, just throwing my hands up in the air. Have you had days like this? We have all had these days. Seems I am going into something or coming out of something at least once a month.

I have experience great trials, but have also experienced the VICTORY over them.

I have been diagnosed with 10 months to live from cancer; yet here I am 12 years later. HEALED.

I have been told my heart was defective and would require surgery at 16 years old; here I am at 45 and no longer bearing that defect in my heart. STRONGER.

I was abandoned by my husband; did not think I would love again yet learning a deeper love like never before. TRUSTING.

Experiencing loss of a loved one, grief that was so heavy, praying for strength to move on. OVERCOMING.

I want to give you something to think about. When it is hard to have faith, to believe that a miracle can happen this time; REMEMBER what God has done for you in the past. REMEMBER how you were able to dig deep, pivot, and keep your head up believing a better day would come.

What miracles have you seen? Did you barely escape death? Where you sick and you recovered? Have you survived abuse or trauma? Have you been in circumstance that you thought you could never overcome the grief?

There is something that happens to us today, that happened to the Israelites after Moses rescued them from Egypt and parted the Red Sea. Imagine walking through the sea parted by God to save you from your enemies. Even after that happened, they still worshipped a false God and had doubt that God would take care of them. After seeing miracles and experiencing God’s love, protection, and provision they forgot about Him. What?!

It is called Spiritual Amnesia.

Simply put, we forget what God has done for us.

We encounter a bad circumstance, pray, survive, and we’re grateful for our lives. As time goes on, we encounter another trial and somehow, we forget that we overcame, experienced miracles, healing, reconciliation, or whatever it was. We doubt, worry, fall apart, and melt into a mess of unbelief; all while shouting like Fred Sanford with his hand over his heart during stressful times (Sanford & Sons, 1970’s sitcom), “You hear that Elizabeth? I’m comin’ to join you honey!” referring to his late wife. (laughing)

After I have my panic attack, exhaust myself from worry, I settle in and pray. It is then I realize that I must have faith and believe that a better day is coming, that I must surrender this thing, whatever it is, to the feet of Jesus. That is where I REMEMBER what the Lord has done for me. I REMEMBER where I was a year ago. This will give me the faith to smile, believe, pray, and have hope that I can make it through the storm once again.

I have a journal that I record the miracles, healing, overcoming, moments in my life, so that when I hit a bump in the road, I can circle back to that “Altar of Remembrance” and just soak it in. Feel it again, see the surprises of triumph. Because there are times I cannot think or even pray when the bad news comes; but reading where I have come from and through with victory already in my life will help me lift up my eyes to where my help comes from and believe again that this too shall pass.

I encourage you my friends to think about your life and your near death experiences, those moments that you have seen a miracle in your life and those around you; so that you can have a way of escape from hopelessness when trouble comes because you are strong, you are an overcomer, you have survived, you will pass through the fire unharmed, and you will be better than yesterday filled with peace for tomorrow.

Write it down as your Altar of Remembrance and visit it often as to never forget; teaching your children and grandchildren so they know what amazing things God has done for you and will have the faith to believe for their own lives that every day is a gift.

Live well my friends and remember you are stronger on the inside than what anyone will ever see from the outside.