Can a mother forget her baby, does she not pity the child of her womb? But even if he forgets me, I won't forget you either! (Isaiah 49:15). I remember you, the affection of your childhood, the love of your motherhood, when you followed me in the wilderness, in the land not yet sown (Jer 2:2).

Is there, could there be an artificial intelligence at any time in the future that could catch up with the memory of our God? Your social and individual memory that runs faster than the speed of light? As he speaks the Words of communal and personal remembrance to Zion and Jerusalem, and through the real symbol and symbolic reality of the most intimate mother-child relationship, he addresses all of us individually.

This Sunday and every day in the week ahead, the ultra-living, non-artificial intelligence of our Lord God speaks to us as a fantastic message of confirmation from his heart: I remember you, I will not forget you.

These messages are so sure and certain that they assure us that the most important thing is God's remembrance of us, his memory will never, never cease, even against all family and community, former workplace, collegial disconnections that tear apart the framework of loneliness. People can erase it from their memory, they can play with the words covering today's serious reality, they can rewrite the memory of our personality and name. Just like when I recently met my former theology classmate from fifty years ago, he only said this to the "joy" of our meeting: - You have changed a lot. (My God, I thought, this is said by a psychologist-pastor, who should know firsthand, and he certainly knows that if there is no change in a person's psychic or spiritual life, then death itself...). Thank God, I answered, I have changed. You do not? But let's return this Sunday to the most important thing: God's amnesia-free, loving ability to remember and his caring, providential memory for us.

God's amnesia-free providence

To put the complex scientific descriptions in simple terms, we can say this: amnesia is a functional disorder of the brain. It can be temporary or permanent memory loss or permanent memory loss. The cause is primarily injury or damage to the brain that occurred for some reason. Its basic forms: anticipatory amnesia, when someone can absorb new information only for a short time, and then forgets it after a short time (anterograde amnesia).

Another version is retrograde amnesia, when someone is unable to recall previous things and events. It can also be temporary (retrograde amnesia). There is also a form in which a person does not remember the psychological or physical cause of the memory loss, such as the accident that happened to him (congrade amnesia). When the first two are combined, total amnesia develops. The person can no longer remember or absorb new information, this is the most serious case. There are also many other forms and combinations of amnesia, we will not go into them now. The point is this:

Our Lord God remembers and remembers us in the infinite memory of love both retrospectively and looking forward, in the category of yesterday, today and forever!

This is called providence with the concept of classical sacred science, theology. The Heidelberg Catechism and many works written about the central category of Christian thinking consider it important to communicate: nothing happens by chance, by chance, but by God's foresight, providence, and providence. It is not fate, some kind of fate, but the will of our Good Provident Father is behind everything that happens, both good and bad. That is, our God plans with his mind and heart at the same time, executes his plans, and takes account with his heart. Even at the speed of light, it combines, controls and governs our tiny lives with a million times greater memory capacity and foresight.

Still, even our seemingly enormous pettiness was dear and valued by Him. Because he has a conscience, responsibility for his creatures, with a lifetime guarantee. Once it has been created, it also takes care of us. Not in a way that makes you carefree, destined to do nothing, but in a way that makes you responsible. Responsible for him. That is why he endows us with reason and heart, and activates them functionally in us and for our benefit.

Impressive, thankful God-memory vs. God-immunity

In the Old Testament Scriptures quoted in today's introduction, our Lord speaks healingly not only against medical cases of human amnesia, but also against existential amnesia. He speaks to Zion and Jerusalem, to the community, precisely because His people have fallen into communal apathy, into the depths of doubt. And He won't let that happen. They perceive it as if God does not even care about them, as if he has given up his providence, care, and providence. How many and how many such providential individual and community moments, hours, days, years, alas, it is difficult to even describe: we have a decade! In the midst of all this, God is not offended, he does not pay for forgetting with forgetting, but remembering his faithfulness and his oath, he reminds his people and all members of his people:

I remember you, and no matter what happens, I will not forget you.
This means no less than that we cannot fall out of His memory, i.e. the immeasurably large and unified powerhouse of His mind and heart, neither retroactively nor in the future. In this commemoration of ourselves, in keeping an account, in the face of all human cynicism and doubt, in the faith of the meticulous divine, paternal providence that takes care of even the smallest personal creation, let us stand against one of the dangerous spiritual epidemics of our days, homo immune! Indifference to God, immunity, which means the contamination of our self-demotion, loss of self, and conscious amnesia. The cynical and harsh virus of impermanence and impiety.

Thanks for everything

It is certainly not a coincidence that this very Sunday is marked as the World Day of Life in the Roman Catholic Bible reading calendar. What a beautiful harmony with the Word of our God! Because it is my Father's will that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him will live forever (John 6:40). Blessed is the God who remembers us in his Son, Jesus, and gives us the knowledge of true life, i.e. the knowledge of Jesus, who is Life, eternal life. May He heal human amnesia of God from His Word through our hearts, with life-giving pure Words from a pure inner source, and extinguish even the thought of the epidemic of God immunity.

Thank you for not forgetting me for a single moment, you forget us, Lord: neither Jerusalem, nor Zion - nor our lives!

Thank you for being your holy great light,
Thank you!
- shines through my heart. I also sing thanks so that I can thank you!

(MG Schneider)

Author: Dr. Lajos Békefy

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