Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Reflection - Number Our Days - Forgetfulness

Source (book): "Teach Us to Number Our Days", Chapter 1, "Forgetfulness", Page 13.
By David Roper, Pastor, and regular and popular writer for Our Daily Bread.


If, on leaving the company, a young man cannot remember where he has left his hat, it is nothing.
PHOTO: If, on leaving the company, a young man cannot remember where he has left his hat, it is nothing. But when an old man forgets, everyone says, "Ah his memory is going." - Dr. Samuel Johnson

Lately I find myself forgetting ordinary things on a regular basis. My misfortune manifests itself in a fading recollection of where I left my car keys, my reading glasses, my sunglasses, my hat.

I even forget my best thoughts, which seen to come and go at random; I have little control over them these days. Plato said our minds are like aviaries and our thoughts are like birds. It's an apt metaphor for me. I reach for one thought and frighten it away, then grasp at another that quickly flits away from my mind - unless I write it down.

There are other things I've forgotten, but right now I can't remember what they are.

There's an upside to forgetting, however. There are things I want to forget, not the least of which are the things in the past that I could have, should have, done. John Greenleaf Whittier said, "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'I might have been.'" Indeed.

I think of relationships I might have nurtured, projects I should have finished, decisions that were better unmade. And certainly my past behavior has been regrettable. An old acquaintance recently characterized me as "a mean kid" in my youth. It saddens me to think that he remembers me that way. I think of all the things I've "done, and been; the shame / Of motives late revealed, and the awareness / Of things ill done and done to others' harm." I wish I could forget them.

Further, I want to forget the wrongs I've received in my lifetime. It's easy to brood over them and become bitter and resentful, like Charles Dickens's sad, eccentric Miss Havisham, who was jilted at the altar and stopped all the clocks in her house at the hour of her disappointment. Her bitterness was frozen in time. I don't want mine to be.

All of us, I'm sure, have been wronged in some way or another at various times; friends and enemies have dishonored and grieved us. We cling to bitterness over our childhood and remember old wounds from a parent's hand.

Some rise above it and leave it behind. I once asked a cruelly abused friend how he dealt with his grievances. "I've got a good forgetter," he replied. I wish I could get one too.

All of which encourages me to recall the patriarch Joseph. He, too, had much to forget. He was "a mean kid" too, flaunting his most-favored status, wearing it on his sleeve, so to speak.

Joseph further alienated himself from his family by endlessly relating his dreams - dreams that were true, as it turned out, but which, when repeated over and over, augmented the resentment of his brothers. They "hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said." (Genesis 37:8) Israel's wise men would have called him a peti - a young fool.

In his youth, a series of calamitous events cascaded down on Joseph's head, like bricks tumbling out of a dump truck, one after another. He was snatched from his dotting father by his brothers, cast into a pit, and passed on to a band of Bedouins who in turn sold him into slavery in Egypt.

In Egypt his life continued to be a series of tragic indignities. He was tempted by a determined seductress who, when spurned, accused him of raping her. He was summarily tried, convicted, imprisoned, and left to languish in isolation for a dozen years or more, forgotten by family and friends.

Yet in the end Joseph's bitterness was transformed into forgiveness and love. He named his firstborn son Manasseh (Hebrew for "caused to forget") for, he said, "God has made me forget all my trouble." (Genesis 41:51)

How did God cause him to forget? Did he work some magic on Joseph that erased his memory?
No, God taught him to look at his past in a redemptive way: Joseph came to see that God's ways were "perfect." (Psalm 18:30)

Two texts underscore that perception: "You sold me," Joseph said to his brothers, "but God sent me here to preserve life." And again, "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives." (Genesis 45:5; 50:20)
 
Joseph remembered well what his brothers had done: they had sold him into slavery. That injustice and cruelty he could never forget. But behind the bitter experiences of the past he saw the providence of God. This is the mystery of sovereignty: God works through evil to accomplish His will. "He permits evil," Augustine of Hippo said, "to transform it into good."

The past cannot be changed, but it can be redeemed. It cannot be forgotten per se (for some things will never be forgotten), but it can be swallowed up in God's sovereign purposes and left behind.


How can we forget the bitterness of our past?
By seeing God's providence in every event of our lives, even in our mistakes and in other's malice. The God of love and wisdom has taken the worst that we have done and is turning it into eternal good. We may not see or know that good until we step into eternity itself, but it is certain - as certain as the lovingkindness of God.
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If, on leaving the company, a young man cannot remember where he has left his hat, it is nothing. But when an old man forgets, everyone says, "Ah his memory is going." - Dr. Samuel Johnson

Lately I find myself forgetting ordinary things on a regular basis. My misfortune manifests itself in a fading recollection of where I left my car keys, my reading glasses, my sunglasses, my hat.


Lately I find myself forgetting ordinary things on a regular basis.
PHOTO: Lately I find myself forgetting ordinary things on a regular basis. My misfortune manifests itself in a fading recollection of where I left my car keys, my reading glasses, my sunglasses, my hat.
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I even forget my best thoughts, which seen to come and go at random; I have little control over them these days. Plato said our minds are like aviaries and our thoughts are like birds. It's an apt metaphor for me. I reach for one thought and frighten it away, then grasp at another that quickly flits away from my mind - unless I write it down.

There are other things I've forgotten, but right now I can't remember what they are.

There's an upside to forgetting, however. There are things I want to forget, not the least of which are the things in the past that I could have, should have, done. John Greenleaf Whittier said, "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'I might have been.'" Indeed.


Plato said our minds are like aviaries and our thoughts are like birds.
PHOTO: Plato said our minds are like aviaries and our thoughts are like birds. It's an apt metaphor for me. I reach for one thought and frighten it away, then grasp at another that quickly flits away from my mind - unless I write it down.
There are other things I've forgotten, but right now I can't remember what they are.
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I think of relationships I might have nurtured, projects I should have finished, decisions that were better unmade. And certainly my past behavior has been regrettable. An old acquaintance recently characterized me as "a mean kid" in my youth. It saddens me to think that he remembers me that way. I think of all the things I've "done, and been; the shame / Of motives late revealed, and the awareness / Of things ill done and done to others' harm." [3] I wish I could forget them.

Further, I want to forget the wrongs I've received in my lifetime. It's easy to brood over them and become bitter and resentful, like Charles Dickens's sad, eccentric Miss Havisham, who was jilted at the altar and stopped all the clocks in her house at the hour of her disappointment. Her bitterness was frozen in time. I don't want mine to be.


I think of all the things I've
PHOTO: I think of all the things I've "done, and been; the shame / Of motives late revealed, and the awareness / Of things ill done and done to others' harm." I wish I could forget them.
Further, I want to forget the wrongs I've received in my lifetime. It's easy to brood over them and become bitter and resentful. I don't want mine to be frozen in time.
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All of us, I'm sure, have been wronged in some way or another at various times; friends and enemies have dishonored and grieved us. We cling to bitterness over our childhood and remember old wounds from a parent's hand.

Some rise above it and leave it behind. I once asked a cruelly abused friend how he dealt with his grievances. "I've got a good forgetter," he replied. I wish I could get one too.

All of which encourages me to recall the patriarch Joseph. He, too, had much to forget. He was "a mean kid" too, flaunting his most-favored status, wearing it on his sleeve, so to speak. [4]


Joseph flaunting his most-favored status
PHOTO: Joseph flaunting his most-favored status
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Joseph further alienated himself from his family by endlessly relating his dreams - dreams that were true, as it turned out, but which, when repeated over and over, augmented the resentment of his brothers. They "hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said." (Genesis 37:8) [5] Israel's wise men would have called him a peti - a young fool.


Joseph further alienated himself from his family by endlessly relating his dreams
PHOTO: Joseph further alienated himself from his family by endlessly relating his dreams - dreams that were true, as it turned out, but which, when repeated over and over, augmented the resentment of his brothers. They "hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said." (Genesis 37:8)
Painting by James Tissot, French painter (1836-1902) - Joseph Reveals His Dream to His Brethren
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In his youth, a series of calamitous events cascaded down on Joseph's head, like bricks tumbling out of a dump truck, one after another. He was snatched from his dotting father by his brothers, cast into a pit, and passed on to a band of Bedouins who in turn sold him into slavery in Egypt.


Joseph was snatched from his dotting father by his brothers, cast into a pit, and passed on to a band of Bedouins who in turn sold him into slavery in Egypt.
PHOTO: Joseph was snatched from his dotting father by his brothers, cast into a pit, and passed on to a band of Bedouins who in turn sold him into slavery in Egypt.
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In Egypt his life continued to be a series of tragic indignities. He was tempted by a determined seductress who, when spurned, accused him of raping her. He was summarily tried, convicted, imprisoned, and left to languish in isolation for a dozen years or more, forgotten by family and friends.


In Egypt Joseph's life continued to be a series of tragic indignities.
PHOTO: In Egypt Joseph's life continued to be a series of tragic indignities. He was tempted by a determined seductress who, when spurned, accused him of raping her. He was summarily tried, convicted, imprisoned, and left to languish in isolation for a dozen years or more, forgotten by family and friends.
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Yet in the end Joseph's bitterness was transformed into forgiveness and love. He named his firstborn son Manasseh (Hebrew for "caused to forget") for, he said, "God has made me forget all my trouble." (Genesis 41:51) [6]
 

How did God cause him to forget? Did he work some magic on Joseph that erased his memory?
No, God taught him to look at his past in a redemptive way: Joseph came to see that God's ways were "perfect." (Psalm 18:30) [7]

Two texts underscore that perception: "You sold me," Joseph said to his brothers, "but God sent me here to preserve life." And again, "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives." (Genesis 45:5; 50:20) [8]


You sold me
PHOTO: "You sold me," Joseph said to his brothers, "but God sent me here to preserve life." And again, "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives." (Genesis 45:5; 50:20)
Painting by James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1902), c. 1896-1902
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Joseph remembered well what his brothers had done: they had sold him into slavery. That injustice and cruelty he could never forget. But behind the bitter experiences of the past he saw the providence of God. This is the mystery of sovereignty: God works through evil to accomplish His will. "He permits evil," Augustine of Hippo said, "to transform it into good."

The past cannot be changed, but it can be redeemed. It cannot be forgotten per se (for some things will never be forgotten), but it can be swallowed up in God's sovereign purposes and left behind.


Joseph remembered well what his brothers had done: they had sold him into slavery.
PHOTO: Joseph remembered well what his brothers had done: they had sold him into slavery. That injustice and cruelty he could never forget. But behind the bitter experiences of the past he saw the providence of God. This is the mystery of sovereignty: God works through evil to accomplish His will. "He permits evil," Augustine of Hippo said, "to transform it into good."
The past cannot be changed, but it can be redeemed. It cannot be forgotten per se (for some things will never be forgotten), but it can be swallowed up in God's sovereign purposes and left behind.
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How can we forget the bitterness of our past?
By seeing God's providence in every event of our lives, even in our mistakes and in other's malice. The God of love and wisdom has taken the worst that we have done and is turning it into eternal good. We may not see or know that good until we step into eternity itself, but it is certain - as certain as the lovingkindness of God.


How can we forget the bitterness of our past?
PHOTO: How can we forget the bitterness of our past?
By seeing God's providence in every event of our lives, even in our mistakes and in other's malice. The God of love and wisdom has taken the worst that we have done and is turning it into eternal good. We may not see or know that good until we step into eternity itself, but it is certain - as certain as the lovingkindness of God.
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Dear Lord
Dear Lord
PHOTO: "Dear Lord, we learn that You permits evil to transform it into good.

Teach us to look at our past in a redemptive way. Injustice and cruelty could never be forgotten. But behind the bitter experiences of the past help us to see Your providence. This is the mystery of Your sovereignty: You work through evil to accomplish Your will.

We pray for Your help to forget the bitterness of our past by seeing Your providence in every event of our lives, even in our mistakes and in other's malice. Help us not to let our bitterness get frozen in time. We pray we can forget them.

Your love and wisdom have taken the worst that we have done and is turning it into eternal good. We may not see or know that good until we step into eternity itself, but it is certain - as certain as Your lovingkindness.

Through Lord Jesus Christ we pray. Amen!
"
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Reflection - Number Our Days - Forgetfulness
Source (book): "Teach Us to Number Our Days", Chapter 1, "Forgetfulness", Page 13.
By David Roper, Pastor, and regular and popular writer for Our Daily Bread.


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Reference
[1] From "Teach Us to Number Our Days", Copyright © 2008 by David Roper, ISBN 978-981-11-7184-0, Chapter 1, "Forgetfulness", Page 13-17.

[3] T. S. Eilot

[4] Joseph "coat of many colors" was actually a long-sleeved garment with stripes on the sleeves to indicate rank. He wore it to parade his importance.

[5] Genesis 37:8

[6] Genesis 41:51

[7] Psalm 18:30

[8] See Genesis 45:5; 50:20, emphasis added.


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