As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, a holiday designated as “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer,” let us find inspiration in the commentary of Charles Spurgeon below on Deuteronomy 8:3-6 regarding humanity’s propensity to forget God’s mercies:

We trace our joys in the sand, but we write our afflictions on marble.

 We forget the streams of mercy, never ceasing, which flow so continually parallel with our pathway.

 If we thus, ungratefully forget, it should cause us serious reflections when we see that God does not forget.

Here in this Book He brings to His people’s memories all the mercies they have received, because they were always present before His own mind.

 The child may forget the kindness of its mother, but the mother does not forget what she bore, and what she has sacrificed for her child.

 The friend may forget what he has received, but it is not likely that the benefactor will forget what he has bestowed.

 If God’s memory, therefore, records all that He has given me, let me be ashamed to let my memory suffer these things to slip.

 What God counts worthy of His Divine recollection let me record on the pages of my memory, and often let me peruse the record.

Let us give thanks to the LORD for His faithful love and His wonderful works for all humanity! (Psalm 107:31)