Remember God Isaiah 43:26

Put me in remembrance: let us plead together; declare thou that thou mayest be justified.



God is speaking to the children of Israel. He has chosen them and set them apart to bless from all the peoples of the world. In fact, that is why God established them as a nation in the first place. God tells them that they were created to "show forth God's praise." However, they did not call upon Him. They did not bring Him the first born of that which God had blessed them with. They did not give Him the sacrifices that He deserved. They refused to worship Him in honor of Who He was and all that He had done for them.

Instead, God told them "You have made Me to serve with your sin." As the children of Israel lived in their rejection and sin, God was made to serve them in their sin. One of the promises that God has given to us is that He will never leave nor forsake us. He is with us everywhere we go and with everything we do. He hears our every thought and He has to watch our every action. God knows what He has in store for us and He knows how our poor decisions are going to negatively effect our lives yet He still "serves us with our sin."

In verse 25 God gives the children of Israel another of His promises. "I, even I, am He who blots out your sin for My own sake, and I will not remember your sin." Do you know what God is trying to tell the children of Israel? He is not as concerned with what they have done in the past; God is concerned about what they are doing today and the direction their lives are headed tomorrow. He promises that He will forget their sin. God wants to be God in our lives. Yesterday is gone and our past is behind us. God wants us to learn from our mistakes and allow Him to take our today and make our tomorrow everything that He can possibly make it.

All we have to do is put Him in remembrance. How do we do that? We take His Word and make it a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path and hide its word in our heart that we might not sin against Him. When we take God at His Word and let His Word have an impact on the decisions that we make, our lives take a dramatic change for the better for God's promise to us is that we do this that we "may be justified."

There is no better place for us to be than to be justified before the Lord. If God serves us in our sin, imagine how He could serve us justified before Him! We owe God our all. All He asks from us is our best. When we give our best to Him, He gives His best to us and that makes our lives the best that they can possibly be! What a trade-off!