I just attended a play based on the premise from an African proverb: “you are not dead as long as someone remembers your name.” That resonates with me and wonder if I will leave the next generation with anything worth remembering. The play was the story of a Jewish woman around the Holocaust and it brought to mind the family lines that were ended and the victims whose names have been lost to history.
There are genocides going on today. Family trees are being cut down. There are people that are childless – either by choice or by heartbreak. Who will know? Who will remember?
God will.
We have a great and awesome God that created us, knows us intimately, and remembers us. He promised. Those who are called by His name will be remembered – not for a generation, or a hundred generations, but into eternity.
God knows our name. And He remembers. Jesus declares in Revelation 3, “I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.” Never blot out. Not only remembered, but spoken before the inhabitants of heaven.
But most powerfully, God paints a picture. A picture that shows that He will remember in a way even beyond any earthly relationship.
Isaiah 49:15-16 “Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; …”
I am more deeply known by our loving God than what any earthly relationship can approach. He will never forget.
