REMEMBER GOD

Remember God

When the Triune God made man He entered into a covenant with us (Gen. 2:16&17; Hos. 6:7; Rom. 5:12f.) giving us a great commission (Genesis 1:26-28; 9:1-7; Matt. 28:18-20) to do all things to the glory of God (1 Cor. 10:31). Assisted by our memory our conscience testifies that God has embedded His Moral Law within us (Rom. 2:14-16). His Cultural Mandate to us includes remembering God while at work or at rest. He has spelled it out for us in the 4^th Commandment: ‘Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labour and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath and hallowed it.’ Exodus  20:8-11. Thus, to remember the Lord’s Day is to remember God and the pattern He has set for that which He created. Remember Him in the six days of labour and remember Him in the one day of rest – a seven day progressive cycle.

Man (male and female) is the image of God and is to image God also in work and rest. But when we forget about God’s instructions and teach our children to reject our Creator and His revelation (whether written revelation or in the things He created), then humanity begins to lose its purpose. Eg, in order to image God properly man must remember what God is like. The philosophy of Evolution teaches our nation’s children to take their eyes off our Maker and to focus primarily on created things such as animals and DNA (Rom. 1:25). Because of this influence society now tends to reflect that which is substituted for our true Maker, and seeks behaviour patterns in animals in order to endorse aberrant behaviour in people. Genes are now used as an excuse to behave immorally, to the point that DNA, not God, sets the ethical standard!

Though we all began our rebellion against God when Adam broke the original covenant (Hos. 6:7), the Cultural Mandate given man by God still stands. Part of that mandate includes all the sciences such as biology, physics, chemistry, anatomy, physiology, medicine etc. Technology and its advances too are part of the Cultural Mandate. The LORD is to be remembered and given His due in all things – be they work or rest. God in His Word encourages us to remember Him: ‘Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, before the difficult days come, and the years draw near when you say, “I have no pleasure in them.”’ Ecclesiastes 12:1.

Old Darwinian Evolutionists have long forgotten their Creator. But surely their young may be rescued along with our own young! Amnesia about God is not genetic. It is a learned immoral behaviour (Rom. 1:18). ‘Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily…’ Colossians 2:8&9.

Christ, is the supreme scientist, for ‘All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it’ John 1:3-5. Christ says, ‘Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.’ Matthew 5:16. Therefore we are to remember God and His glory in everything we do. Thus there is pleasure to be had in conducting true science, ie, science done in obedience to the Cultural Mandate. Therefore study creation and its creatures, advancing all these things to the glory of God and not some or other theory. For the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.

God knows every letter of our DNA, for He measured all the ingredients when He formed us. And the wonderful thing is that God remembers us. ‘For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. As a Father pities his children, so the LORD pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame, He remembers we are dust.’ Psalm 103:11-14.

Dear reader, remember God and try this scientific experiment: Seek His mercy and see if He doesn’t forgive you all your sins in Christ Jesus.