Memory

The Bible has so many things, a running general theme,
about remembering. Remembering your history,
remembering what you've been given, what you've
experienced. Historically and personally. Altars
built for future generations to remember. Things
written down to be remembered. Because human just
forget. God tells the Israelites they'll forget.
Their children will forget. In one generation major
big things, accompanied by miracles, are forgotten,
and people return to the vomit.

Jesus said at the last supper when you eat and drink
remember me. He could have said when you go to the
bathroom remember me (because going to the bathroom is
something humans do everyday, but that wouldn't be a
very good thing to associate with Jesus, so he said
when you eat and drink; a memory device).

Alot of what bedevils one regarding Work and practice
of the faith and so on is this not remembering things.
Not focusing on them and keeping them in mind, to the
point where they become your new mental furniture, so
to speak. Your new universe of thought, or universe
of discourse. New things that have to be remembered
with attention and effort. Kept alive until they are
present essentially and effect motivation and attitude
and so on.

I use Berkhof's Manual of Christian Doctrine (it's
really an inspired manual of on-the-mark biblical
doctrine) to find and meditate on the basic,
foundational new ideas that biblical doctrine is.
Like 'the Divine Decree.' It is a rather major thing.
Something that could and should be foremost, or
foundational in one's everyday thoughts and attitude
and how one sees the world.

The Work itself is a conglomeration of new ideas to be
absorbed and made part of one's New Thinking. Yet it
all has to be remembered. Brought to mind from
memory. Made permanent in memory.

When this is done with Work ideas, practices, and
goals, and biblical doctrine, and the Bible, along
with the practice of it all, then real essential
change and development becomes a living reality in
one's everyday life.

These things like the Divine Decree become 'things',
like the morning and evening and things like that.
Work things are more active, things you do, but all
together form the new universe; or, the Kingdom of
God...

ps- You can get a glimpse of this in the lives of
higher beings as depicted by the Homeric gods and
goddesses when they recite little things like "Zeus,
all powerful" or references to laws that can't be
broken or how gods relate to each other, etc. These
are foundational things in their world that are
present to their minds and effect their volition and
perceptions and so on. Humans are not in touch with
such foundational things. You have to find them and
make strong, enduring efforts to see them and remember
them. Work sources, biblical doctrine, the Bible,
these are where they are found. When you climb the
mountain of influence you do this to a degree when you
make notes of ideas that are new or big and that are
found in a line up that mountain. Once you get to the
summit you have to really engage and engraft in memory
the summit and beyond-summit ideas and realities you
find there.