“Listen to me, you descendants of Jacob, all the remnant of the people of Israel, you whom I have upheld since your birth, and have carried since you were born. Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.” –Isaiah 46:3-4

Think back to your earliest memories. How old were you? What were you doing? It so amazing that our brains and memory can go back to when we were just a couple of years old and recall things that were happening. My earliest memory is of my house in Alaska. If you asked me right now to draw a picture of the layout I could, and I have many other memories that go along with that place from when I was 3 but I can’t remember anything earlier than that. According to neuroscientists we can’t remember things from when we were a baby because our brains were underdeveloped, we had no language to connect things with, and we had no retrieval cues. Without those and some other more scientific things it is impossible to have created memories from our infancy. But wouldn’t have been nice to remember what being held or protected 24/7 was like?

            Knowing those things about our memory and development give us just a glimpse into the memories that our parents have of us, and more specifically the memories that our Heavenly Father has of us. He remembers the day you were born, your parents holding you for the first time, your first smile, your first steps, and every other minute of your life. Isaiah reminds us of that when he writes: “I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.” God has been around and knows every intricate detail of your life. He has been their sustaining you through all of the good times and the tough times and He has made and kept the promise to you that He will rescue you. He sent His Son, to take our place and all of our sins for eternity, rescuing us from a life of hopelessness and eternal separation from Him. His ransom for our rescue!

“The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.” -Edwin Louis Cole