Your Rafiki moment

Simba starts chasing rafiki in pursuit of learning about his father.He chases him through the trees and catches up to him. Rafiki tells him to look into the water he is dissapointed to see only his reflection, thinking it might be his father. Rafiki tells him to look closer and he then sees a reflection of his father. Rafiki says you see he lives in you. There is then a dialogue with his father and how he has forgotten who he was and who he was to become. I know there was a lot of hocus pocus and things involved in this but I think there is an important lesson for us all here if we are willing to be honest with ourselves. Dueteronomy 6;12 says "be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, our of the land of slavery." There are grumplings and complaints going throughout the wilderness. Moses heres chatter how they wish they were back in Egypt. Ya they had seen miracles, true they also saw the wrath God put on pharoh and his country. They saw the sees opened wide and they have witnessed God provide there every need. Yet still there is complainingthere is ungratefulness. How couldthis be? How could tehy forget that there life back there was far worse. How could they forgetthat life in Egypt was far worse. Do they not remember the promises God has for them to enter the promise land? Are we really that different? How often do we find ourselves complaining and longing to be able to indulge in the things we used to. How often do We forget who God says we are, the promises he has for us and where he has removed us from. You see our lives are not much different. We wereall living in slavery at one point. Trapped by the desires of the world. Trapped by our own selfish desires. God rescued us and when we beleived we were marked by him and entered into his grace. He has a promise land for us he is preparing the way.We are wondering in our desert until the time is right. We must REMEMBER that we are part of something bigger, we are part of a larger story. That we too were once slaves, but we have been rescued and all of our legitimate needs have been met. When the times get tough and when the world seems like it might be crashing down on you. We must remember who God is, who we are in him, where we were brought out of and where we are promised to end up. The story isnt about us. We are called to be ambassadors to our king. Every moment of every day we are called to be embassadors. Our opportunities are truly limitless. Simba had ran away from his destiny, he complained about the life he was supposed to be having and the hurt that was there. It is no longer his or he would rather go back to how it was or worse didnt want to go take what was rightfully his. He REMEMBERED HE HAD HIS RAFIKI moment. Will you?