God Does Not Forget Us! - Isaiah 45-50

 Isaiah 49:14-16 (ESV)

But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me;

my Lord has forgotten me.”

“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;

your walls are continually before me.

God will not forget you.    Think of how many people you have known, meet or even had some type of relationship with at one time or another.   Do you remember them all?   Today our electronic devices have ways to show past pictures of events in our lives.  Randomly the device will pop of a picture of some event and there you are at some place or even with some person or some people.  It causes you to remember that moment.  Yet, you may not.   Or, you may, but vaguely.   The other day my computer screen saver was showing pictures from my photo album.  There was a picture of me standing by a guard in Alcatraz prison when we went there almost 15 years ago.  I have no idea who the guy is.   Later I saw a picture of my wife and I at the farthest southern tip of the continental USA, in Key West, Florida.  We took a picture of couple we only meet briefly.   I have no idea who they were, are now.   We so easily forget people.  People so easily forget us.   But, God does not forget us.   God can’t forget us.   He promises to write our name in the palm of His hand.   This is such a reassuring thought.   People come and go.  Relationships foster and end.   But, the relationship we have with God in right in His hands, daily.  

John 10:28, 29 (ESV)

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

We are known by God and He establishes a long lasting and never ending relationship with us:

Hebrews 8:10-12 (ESV)

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel

after those days, declares the Lord:

I will put my laws into their minds,

and write them on their hearts,

and I will be their God,

and they shall be my people.

And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor

and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’

for they shall all know me,

from the least of them to the greatest.

For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,

and I will remember their sins no more.”

God will never forget us.  We might forget someone in our past that was even significant.   But, God knows and will remember the most insignificant parts of our lives.  

Psalms 139:2 (ESV)

You know when I sit down and when I rise up;

you discern my thoughts from afar.