This post took 2 days to write as Father kept pouring in more and then the waiting on confirmation. It’s like giving birth sometimes. 😉

Then today as I was posting this, He pointed out something and reminded me that when a person sleeps, in cartoons, they always put Z’s ^💤💤💤 over the head of the sleeper.

Our Father has a sense of humor, doesn’t he? Because “forgetting” is like sleep walking through life. I think that is why the Word says in Ephesians 5:14 “…Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” 😃

“ZIZ : “The Spirit of Forgetting” : “Ziz is found twice in the Hebrew Book of Psalms and in Isaiah’s prophecy. However these appearances are in variably obscured in translation. A brief look at several related words nevertheless revealed Ziz as a threshold spirit; the spirit of forgetting. This spirit has always been my nominee for Hell’s Most Efficient Employee.” (^©Anne Hamilton)

“ZAKAR” : Rembrance : To employ your hands and feet and lips to engage in whatever action that remembrance requires. In the Bible, ‘remembering,’ particularly on the part of God, is not the retention or recollection of a mental image, but a focusing upon the object of memory that results in action. In other words, God remembered Noah by doing something, by sending the saving, flood-drying wind. Remembrance causes a divine act of mercy. When The LORD sees the rainbow and “remembers His covenant,” He actively prevents a cosmic flood from recurring. When He remembered Rachel, He “opened her womb.” As John Goldingay remarks, “When God is said to think about someone or something, this is preliminary to acting on their behalf.” Or, as Brevard Childs puts it, “Remembrance is an ACTION directed toward someone, rather than as a mental experience of the subject.” (^©Christ for You)
John 10:10 “The thief comes not, but for to steal , and to kill, and to destroy : I am come that they might have life (ZOE), and that they might have it more abundantly.”

LIFE : Strong’s Greek 2222 : ZOE LIFE OF CHRIST : The secret to all success and richness of life; A life preserved in the midst of perils with vigor; the state of one who is possessed of vitality or is animate: The vital spirit, the breath of (i.e. imparting) life, of the life of persons raised from the dead; Of a new mode of life, as in Romans 6:4, “Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the Glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in NEWNESS of life.”

ABUNDANTLY : Strong’s Greek 4053 : going past the expected limit, over and above, overflowing; more than is necessary, superadded; excess; more than abundantly; beyond what is anticipated, exceeding expectation; beyond abundant, greater, excessive, beyond measure, exceedingly, vehemently; noun: preeminence, advantage. (^©Biblehub)

“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a MIRROR the glory of The LORD, are being transformed into the SAME IMAGE from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of The LORD.” 2 Corinthians 3:18.

“For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a MIRROR and after observing himself goes away and immediately FORGETS what he looks like. But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so — not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.” James 1:23-25.

“He has REMEMBERED His covenant forever, The word which He commanded to a thousand generations,” Psalm 105:8.

“For I received from The LORD what I also passed on to you: The LORD Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; DO THIS IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME.” In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME” For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim The LORD’s death until He comes.…” 1 Corinthians 11:23-26.

“Bless The LORD, O my soul, And FORGET NOT all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, Who satisfies your mouth with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.” Psalm 13:2-5.

“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3:20-21.

“Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:2.