Remember What God Has Done

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Austrian Olympic ski jumper Daniel Tschofenig might have won a gold medal at the 2026 Winter Games. He was considered a favorite to win, having won a World Cup gold medal in the 2024-25 season.

The 23-year-old had qualified for the final round of competition. Daniel was set to ‘go for the gold,’ but something happened.

Daniel had worn a pair of new boots for the competition, and he had failed to check their size. It turned out that the boots were four millimeters longer than the rules allowed, so he was disqualified. Daniel might have become a gold medalist if he had only remembered to measure his boots.

In March 2025, United Airlines Flight 198 departed Los Angeles bound for Shanghai with 250 passengers on board. About two hours into the flight, something happened.

The pilot realized he had forgotten his passport; he would not be allowed to land in China without it. The plane was diverted to San Francisco, where they swapped crews.

The pilot would have avoided a lot of trouble if he had only remembered to pack his passport.

Remembering is important. And of course, that applies to spiritual matters, too. You likely recall the biblical account of the children of Israel crossing the Jordan River into the Promised Land.

Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth of the first month and camped at Gilgal on the eastern edge of Jericho. Those twelve stones which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal. He said to the sons of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What are these stones?’ then you shall inform your children, saying, ‘Israel crossed this Jordan on dry ground.’ “For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed, just as the LORD your God had done to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed; that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, so that you may fear the LORD your God forever.” (Joshua 4:19-24)

The Lord did something miraculous at the Jordan River, and those 12 stones were set up as a memorial to ensure His story would be told to the next generation. The children of Israel were to never forget what their mighty, reverence-worthy God had done.

Remembering is important. The psalmist understood that. “I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your doings; I muse on the work of Your hands” (Psalm 143:5).

One 17^th-century saint said that “remembrance [remembering] is the chief work of a Christian.”

Two things to consider:

1. We should be careful to stay in God’s Word, regularly renewing our hearts with the stories of God’s greatness and His goodness. When we neglect the Bible, the truths of God start to fade from our memory; He becomes less impressive. That’s a dangerous place to be.

2. We need to be intentional about telling the next generation about the Lord. By God’s grace, we’ve seen some of the work of His hands, and we have a responsibility to pass along those accounts to the coming generation. What a privilege to point to the ‘memorials’ scattered throughout Scripture and say, “Look what God has done!”

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