I shared with you yesterday that I am studying and preparing a message for a local church where I will have the privilege of filling in for a dear pastor who will be away over the weekend. I’m developing a message on the topic of “Remembering.” I don’t know about you, but for me, it is very easy to forget things. Apparently I am not alone.

The word “remember” is found 148 times in 144 verses in the Bible. In the book of Deuteronomy, the word “remember” is found 14 times. On the Sunday that I will fill in for my pastor friend, the message will be entitled “Remembering and Rejoicing.” The message has four points to it. Over the next few days, I will share another point of the outline and take you to four wonderful passages in this book of Remembering, Deuteronomy.

Yesterday, 1. Remember God’s grace (Deuteronomy 5:15). We come to point number 2 today.

2. Remember God’s greatness. “If you should say in your heart, These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them? You shall not be afraid of them, but you shall remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt. You shall not be terrified of them; for the LORD your God, the great and awesome God, is among you” (Deuteronomy 7:17-18, 21).

Sometimes our obstacles seem insurmountable.
Sometimes our problems seem impossible.
Sometimes our circumstances seem hopeless.

Apparently, that’s just about how the children of Israel were feeling. The Lord told them not to be “terrified” of these nations. The Hebrew word “terrified” is yare (yaw-RAY) which means to tremble, to be filled with dread. I am mindful that these Hebrew children were going to a place they had never seen. They faced battles that they had never experienced. They were terrified.

The Lord doesn’t simply command them not to be terrified. He explains why they didn’t need to be terrified. It was because the “LORD your God, the great and awesome God, is among you.” He is present. He is there with you.

Let’s stop and think of this today. As Christ-followers, we do not live in denial, pretending we have no problems. But when we view our problems in the light of God’s presence with us, our problems come into a proper focus. I want to speak to my problems and say to them, “You look big to me and yet, look at my Lord and see how big He really is.”