Write This As a Memorial

Then the Lord said to Moses,“Write this as a memorial in a book

and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out

the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

~ Exodus 17:14

This verse marks the first time the word "write" is used in scripture. God wanted the people to remember that He was going to perpetually (Exodus 17:16) be at war with the Amalekites.

Amalek is a type of the flesh. The flesh is that left over corruption that remains after we are justified and until we are glorified. It is that remnant of the old sinful nature. It is that which we as believers struggle against from the moment we are saved until the moment Christ returns or we depart from this world via death.

God is at war with my flesh.

Am I?

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you...

~ Colossians 3:5