Short Memories

Mark 8:1–4(KJV 1900) — 1In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them, 2I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat: 3And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far. 4And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?

Our memories are a fickle thing.....most of us I would imagine suffer from some form of "selective memory" .  Back in Chapter 6 of this great Gospel of Mark, Jesus had fed 5,000 with 5 loaves and 2 fishes.....the disciples were there....yet now faced with a similar dilemma, their memories have faded....you know we are the same way....every time we've ever been in a tough situation, God has managed to work us through it even if it was our own fault we find ourselves in the situation.....yet the next time troubles arise....we are doing the same thing the disciples are doing.....forgetting, and possibly doubting....Friends we need to remember that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever! Our circumstances change, our lives change, our bodies change.....But God never does.....His promises are made new every morning.... in closing I would like to remind us what Jeremiah felt when writing the Book of Lamentations....remember these verses often friends: 

Lamentations 3:18–26(KJV 1900) — 18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.21This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.22It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.24The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.25The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.26It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.