nostalgia

Nostalgia - a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period of time or a place with happy personal associations. 

This is something that has really been big in the past year or so. There is just something about thinking about happy memories and going back to times where things seemed so perfect that make you feel so good.

Even as you read this, I challenge to you really refresh your mind to some nostalgic times.

I know for me, so many memories are coming to mind. I'm picturing the places I've been and times with my family. It warms my heart...it makes me feel good.

In times like this it's important to refresh your memory. Having to stay at home and be safe might not be the most fun thing in the world. But it's what we have to do right now. If you are feeling down...and like you are a little trapped I challenge to refresh your memory. Think about traveling, think about memories that you have with your friends and family. Look at some pictures, call your friends and talk about those things. Embrace the nostalgia through refreshing your memory.

"I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of the body." (2 Peter 1:13)

Just like how we should embrace nostalgic times, we are called to refresh our memory as believers.

Believers must not neglect the basics of their faith. We need constant reminders of all the fundamentals of our faith and of how we came to believe in the first place.

Sometimes we forget the basics and make our faith in Jesus a little more difficult than it should be. That's because we try to make things too complicated. We can't do that. We must remember what led us to believe in the first place.

We cannot allow ourselves to be bored or impatient with messages on the basics of the Christian life.

Kobe Bryant once said this: "I was the greatest because I was obsessed with the basics."