I was talking to a T-Mobile “Expert,” as they now call them, about an issue with my daughter's Apple phone. The agent let me know that I needed to talk to the tech team because “Apple likes to control things,” and then we can find out how to handle trouble with this device. Sidebar: I’m the only non-Apple user in my entire family and regularly get mocked for not being on the Apple team or for actually using an Android phone (superior in my book). But I digress.

What that T-Mobile “Expert” said about Apple's “control” issues got me to thinking about our “control” issues as believers.

Let these rich words by Dr. Michael Horton, Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary, sink into your mind, “A church is not a group of friends you’ve picked. It is a group of brothers and sisters God has picked for you.”

Have you ever thought about this truth? Take a moment and let it sink into your mind.

Now let’s think about some of the implications:

It seems like a big part of life is remembering things…your keys, phone, names, bills, turning things off, turning things on, etc. Some of us are better than others at remembering things. We’ve all seen or read the bumper sticker that says “I’ve got everything together, I just forgot where I put it.”

But we also know there are things we should never forget…birthdays, anniversaries, appointments, promises, and most importantly, the lavish richness of God’s grace and truth toward us who believe!

God is not a forgetter even when He chooses not to recall our sins against Him (Jer. 31:34; Isa. 43:25; Heb. 8:12; 10:17). The Hebrews writer makes this amazing statement about our God: “for God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints” (Heb. 6:10).

God doesn’t forget: