A friend said, "At my age, I have to tell the truth. I couldn't remember a lie." Our memory
can be a pretty unreliable faculty, even downright embarrassing. However, we don't
expect God to have such a difficulty. We cannot be shocked when the Bible states, "the
Lord remembered her."
In the Old Testament, "to remember" can mean the same as English speakers do:
"drawing to mind something from the past into the present." But it also has a deeper
usage in the idiom of the Hebrew people. "To remember" can mean "to take notice of
