Remembering God

We remember all or nothing. If we remember all of the bad things, we may blame God. If we remember all of the good things, we may think we don’t need God. We need to be able to talk to others with shared experiences to work through these past experiences to balance the good and bad. We have a biased memory of our past. People suffering from depression only remember the bad. We need an integration of the good and bad in God’s greater narrative. We need to get outside ourselves and seek balance in our lives. Splitting is the psychological term referring to remembering all good or all bad. Regardless of our circumstances, God has the ultimate story.

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. (Romans 5:1-5)