The God Who Remembers

Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

Malachi 4:3-6

There's something interesting here to be seen in the house of the Lord and it goes a little like this. Allow me to tell you a story if you will. If you won't, it's really not fine cause honestly you'd be missing out on the best part of all this. You're all settled in now I hope and ready to listen for now how that God is ever so good. There's a little story then that involves Moses and Aaron. Perhaps you may know them, these two men that were sent from the Lord. Well, perhaps you don't know them really, though being the children you probably should. I know, it's awful hard to remember as the text has pronounced and from here to way back when is an awful long time. Let's face it. It's awful hard to remember what was once deemed as forgot by the Lord.

There was once a tribe as mission stories had told way down deep in the jungle. They lived by a river that flowed on so well year after year. The River known as time flowed on yet these people felt all a bit too lost to it's flow. Since these felt effaced by time and the weather, they became known to themselves and others around as the people put away and forgot about by the Lord. Maybe it's not really true, who honestly knows. The thing is though that our God, in effect, is making his statement as well of himself. It seems he's in the business of making known to the people. After all, what's better than a few promises and blessings given out under the breath only to be marked for fulfillment much later.

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

Then again, you've also heard the adults talk of a place called Shiloh no doubt where it once was the site of our God having abandoned his people and so having left them alone. Indeed, all that was left to them now were the rules, laws, precepts, and all contained in that place. The forefather Abraham and Moses all had long since gone missing having, how shall I put this, long gone and dead. Instead, these now had returned back to the dust as promised once for when from dust you were taken. So then to dust shall there be nothing that's left. Lest we'd be forgetting ourselves, there's ought of the Lord in these blessed pages that ring with the age. So too Elijah's a coming, while not quite the Lord, still with a very big sword.

It's one that speaks of truth and the Word and so of a returning back to the heart of the Lord. I know, you don't really know him either except for the fact that when he spoke the good Lord had listened. His primary mission was that of a prophet of a rather unusual look much like John the Baptist that came on much later. He's to turn the hearts of the children on back to the fathers as, well, the starters and enders of mischief. Perhaps though you haven't really remembered these very much if at all, have you them? Some of you know earthly fathers that did wrong and so were taken of evil. Then again, in your following along with wherever else some might have led on to, you too have wandered off and gotten lost from the fold.

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

These leaders, whether you like it or not, have become something of a spiritual daddy of sorts. It's high time though with all the mess of who followed who and outright rebellion that it all gets straightened out from the house. Whether right as some that have lingered or wrong as those who had just gotten themselves visited later, it's high time your nonsense has come to terms with the Lord. In fact, that's really who's coming regardless of what they all have a say, though perhaps to you too he'll seem somewhat foreign or strange. Regardless, he's coming for all who would listen. Indeed, as the Scriptures have said there remains the taking back of the Lord.

Times might sure be a-changing and the economy's raging, but it's almost time for the soon coming, even that of the Lord. It's a refiners fire and fuller's soap indeed to be sure. When with one breath really, he's turned the wicked out all over though there the ashes be joined to his house once again. So too, as you're about to pass by, it's a taking back if you will, whatever was lost or stolen or missing or abandoned or having been given up of the Lord. Small wonder then of the surety found in the righteous soon trust though these be oft-complained of or no. It's a healing then that speaks just of him, one having arisen in fullness of his own perfect name. That the words might be fulfilled which were said, 'behold I walked through the city and looked for a man and behold there was none who would answer me and there remained there the desolate house of the Lord.'