We have a rather high opinion of ourselves in certain areas and one of those areas is our memories. We imagine that we will always remember God's great acts. We will never forget that God created the world, that he brought his people out of Egypt and into the Promised Land, that Christ died on the cross, that we have been converted.
Sadly, all the evidence is that we are quick to forget and forgetfulness is one of the greatest enemies of faith. This is something politicians rely on. If you are in power then you do the unpopular things early on and the popular things later, if you can. One writer says that it is like in marriage where often the biggest danger is not infidelity but forgetting why you married in the first place.
