It is said that both faith and obedience are only possible by our remembering and repeating. This was the gift and example of the Hebrew traditions and festivals. Remembering becomes a powerful thing in the present because the actions of God in the past are done by a living God who today makes me sure of what he has done. The past is gone but because something decisive happened for me on the Cross, the past lives into the present. It only requires a believing in our hearts. Because it is Christ who saves us, and not ourselves, remembering and repeating are crucial for staying alive in the faith. In my daily remembering of what Jesus Christ has done for me on the cross, I do not forget that God loved me from eternity and has not forgotten me.