God Remembers – He Remembers His People

God tells us in Proverbs 23:17-18:

Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long. For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

Our expectation will not be cut off and what is our expectation? We expect that God will fulfill His Word and His promises and He will give His people eternal life as we are equipped with glorious resurrected bodies to live for ever and ever in the new heavens and new earth in a glorious state of bliss and happiness. All these things will happen. That is our expectation, even though for a time there is hardship.

There is no “dressing up” our time. There is no way to make this time appear gentler and kinder. It is not a gentle and kind time for the people of God. It is grievous to be tried and tested and to be proved in the fire. There is no way to escape it, but it is only for a time. It is just a certain duration of time in which these things are going on and God is assuring us that we will not always be “forgotten,” as it may appear to be the case at this point in time as we make our appearance before the judgment seat of Christ. We may think we have been forgotten, but that is not true.

God has not forgotten His people, as it says in Isaiah 49:14-16:

But Zion said, the LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

God will not forget His people. This goes along with our not being forsaken. He will neither leave us nor forsake us. If God forgot us, we would be forsaken, but He does not. God remembers. He remembers His people.