Before you assume him a budding theologian, I knew what he really meant was that he wished he had the power to shake down walls at his command. Still…his question hit me square between the eyes.
In 1986, Janet Jackson released one of her catchiest tunes of the decade. The amazingly easy-to-memorize chorus—don’t look it up or it’ll get stuck in your head—asks a question that could just as well summarize the entirety of the Old Testament.
“Oo-oo-ooh yeah, what have you done for me lately?”
In fact, the Bible tells story after story about a VERY forgetful group of people.