Memories

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory.

So wrote the poet Shelley nearly 200 years ago. Sometimes memories are all we have and they become a substitute for reality, for the present experience. We are in danger if we live in the past. Better, our memories can help us interpret the present, and be a spur to action in the future. So the psalms often recall the way God has led his people in times past. As we rely on his unchanging nature, our memories - as well as his promises – give us cause for hope for the future. Ebenezer: “Thus far has the Lord helped us.” What about bad memories? God says: “Their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more.” If we are partakers on the divine nature, is this a way in which we can share that divinity?