The Forgotten

     When Eve met Satan in the Garden of Eden, all the fruit they had been given to eat was not enough.  God was forgotten as they reached forth to take the only forbidden fruit.  Only after they had sinned did Adam and Eve feel ashamed.  Yet, because of that sin they were thrust from the Garden to sweat in their labor. 

     When Cain became jealous of his brother, God was forgotten.  Only after Cain killed his brother and God talked with him did he feel remorse.   Cain said, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.”

    When Lot and his wife were told to flee from Sodom and Gomorrah they were told not to look back.  Yet, Lot’s wife forgot the Lord’s instructions.  She looked back and turned into a pillar of salt.

     After the children of Israel were rescued from Egypt, they continued to forget God and what He was doing for them.  They forgot the miraculous opening of the Red Sea, and they forgot the manna rained down each day to provide needed food.  They continued to complaint.  They forgot the promises of God and were too fearful to enter the land flowing with “milk and honey.”  They forgot God and ended up wandering for forty years.

     America was given to us as a land of liberty and freedom!  The people have been a strong, prosperous nation.  But today, the people are forgetting God.  We are falling into a weak economy; drugs are becoming a leisurely past time; families are falling apart; other countries are sending missionaries to America for we are becoming a nation that is forgetting God; a nation that is forgetting to pray.   

     We must remember that God still calls just as He did to Adam and Eve, “Where art thou?”   He has never forgotten us.