A Story of Remembrance

In our final week of The Work of God, we look at A Story of Remembrance. The focus turns to the deep human struggle with forgetfulness—forgetting both the tragedies and brokenness of history as well as the unshakable faithfulness of God. Drawing from Esther’s story, we see how God’s people in exile had drifted, assimilating into cultural norms and losing sight of His covenant promises. Like Esther and Mordecai, we too are prone to being shaped more by the prevailing culture than by the Story of God, leading to compromise, fear, and misplaced loves. Yet the book of Esther is ultimately a testimony of divine preservation and reversal, showing that even when God seems absent, He is powerfully at work.

We are called to resist the corrosive loves of power, wealth, and beauty that enslave the heart and instead embrace a life of weakness where Christ’s power is made perfect (2 Cor. 12:9). Remembrance becomes the antidote: remembering who God is, what He has done, who that makes us, and what He calls us to do. Just as Israel’s festivals served as cosmic signposts, shaping identity and imagination through rhythms of worship and reenactments of salvation, so too must the church cultivate practices of remembrance. Gathering around Word, fellowship, table, and prayer (Acts 2:42–47; Heb. 10:19–25) forms us as a people who live by faith in a world bent on forgetfulness.

In Faith Among the Faithless, Mike Cosper insists that Christians are called not to self-protection but to meaningful risk, pouring out their lives in countercultural love and sacrificial presence. The great reversal of the cross assures us that weakness is victory, remembrance is renewal, and God’s story will prevail. In a culture that forgets, God calls His people to remember, embodying His faithfulness for the sake of the world.