Feasts, Holidays, & Testimonies

"Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were bapized into Moses in the cloud and the sea, all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of the spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. But with most of them God was not pleased for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness."

1 Corintians 10:1-5

Israel's Memorial Day, Yom Hazikaron, is a couple days away. 
Its purpose is one of remembrance, as evidenced by the name of the annual event. I was reflecting today on the importance of remembrance as I talked with some friends. I commented on the shortness of my own memory when I amy be caught up in the throes of a hardship.  
When someone asks us about a particular event in our own lives, it is a most excellent time to give our own testimony. 
When this happens to me I am hit with an "ah ha moment" -the remembrance of just one of the so many times when God has shown up, and I find myself repenting for  worrying, complaining, or unbelief, or all of the above.

The children of Israel had their first borns spared fron the angel of death, passed through a parted Red Sea, watched as Phoroah's horses and riders were drowned as the sea crashed down on them, saw the shikinah glory on Moses' face, followed the pillar of cloud by day and fire by night, enjoyed supernatural sustenance for 40 years, traveled in clothing and footware that never wore out, and when they obeyed God they triumphed over enemies...and yet they complained endlessly. That generation died in the desert, their children were those who entered the Land. Joshua and Caleb's names and actions are remembered, but the other 10 spies and their memory vanished as a result of their unbelief and disobedience, as did their families.

Communion was created especially to frequently spark our memories regarding what Jesus accomplished for us:

"And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body given for you,; do this in remembrance of me."
Luke 22:19

Every holiday, the Feasts, communion, Shabbat, as we listen to, or tell someone else our own histories (His-stories)- testimonies, let us remember and revere what, rather, Who we are focusing on: God in all His manifold greatness and lovingkindness.

"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death."

Rev.12:11