Remembering Your Creator

      There are memories and then there are memories. I recently gave a Commencement speech to a group of High Schoolers who I had the privilege of teaching (Centers of Learning). They were an awesome group and I had formed some great memories with them and of them. As I shared these memories with this group (and all in attendance) I reminded them that the real memory to form in your life as young man or a young woman was the memory of God. The author of  Ecclesiastes writes "Remember your Creator in the days of your youth before the evil days come and you say I find no pleasure in them".
      The education of any student or child or adult for that matter should always have as its basis the brain grove of God, our Creator. When we study, play, shop, walk around, eat, drink, have relationships, have babies, whatever we are doing there should be the remembering of God. It should not be in the passive tense. It should be an aggressive remembering that is forced to the front of our lives like answers during a Final Exam. "Remember", is probably in the imperative form, I should look. Yep I was right, ‹rOk◊z. The imperative form of the verb is a command. Remember!! I command you, the Creator in the days of your youth. 
      I sometimes think of it this way since I am not a yut any more (My Cousin Vinny). When I start a class or a new project or begin anything new, like the day, I think I will remember God who created this day, project or this relationship. He created all things, what is his plan for this one thing? "In all your ways acknowledge Him and he will direct your path"(Proverbs 3:6).
      Remembering God creates a force in your life. The habitual, continual practice of looking to the Lord creates a blessing. John Stevens put it this way "The habits, the patterns of walking with God that are established in the time of your youth have a great continuing force in your life. They continue to bless even more than you realize in the great events of your life" (Volume 1, 1970, The Living Word, p.57). That's awesome. The force of our connecting with our Creator comes through to our lives. Makes sense. He created us for something. Why wouldn't the force of who he is come through our connection with him? 
      Ephesian 2:10 says "We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, for good works, that he preordained that we should walk in them." We are his workmanship made for good works! The word for "good works" in the Greek is poi√hma. This is the same word we get poem from. If I might with out stretching it too far, I would like to say we are his poem. When we allow who God created us to be to come through then our lives like a poem can be read by others. Paul said "you are our epistles... known and read of all men" (I Cor. 2:2-3). 
      Remembering God everyday can be come a force and an affect in all we do and say. This is a good charge to young people and it is a good charge to the rest of us, also. "Remember your Creator..."