Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Lord, what a perfect morning. Coffee in hand, I sat on the patio, meditating and reading Psalms. An old hymn from decades past came to mind. I softly hummed along with the words singing in my mind.
“Something good is going to happen to you,
Happen to you, this very day.
Something good is going to happen to you,
Jesus of Nazareth is passing this way.”
Without warning, another old song I’d not thought of in decades shattered the tranquility of the moment.
“My boomerang won’t come back,
My boomerang won’t come back.
I’ve waved the thing all over the place,
Practiced till I was black in the face,
I’m a big disgrace to the Aborigine race.
My boomerang won’t come back!”
In 1961, as an impressionable 14-year-old, along with millions of other kids, I sang this novel song ad nauseum to the annoyance of my parents.
So true to form, I felt the Holy Spirit nudging me. “How did you remember those words when you haven’t thought of that song in decades?” While fumbling for an answer, the Holy Spirit answered the question. “Repetition. Plain and simple. How did you learn the alphabet? Or the states and their capitals? Or the multiplication tables — before calculators on cell phones, of course?”
Jesus, You said, “When the Holy Spirit comes, He will remind you of all that I’ve told you” (John 14:26). So repeating what the Scriptures say increases our faith? According to Romans 10:17, it does. “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing through the Word of Christ.”
You’re so right, Lord. How else would i have remembered these Scriptures if I hadn’t in the past repeated them in faith? And unlike the boomerang that won’t come back, You tell us Your Word will come back to You after it has accomplished what You sent it out to do, (Isaiah 55:11).
Gotcha, Jesus.
THANKFUL 
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