Man's grappling with the problem of how a peacock's tail came to acquire its elaborate pattern has never been solved although even evolutionists have tried to do so. One scientist made an attempt to estimate what today would be called the amount of "information" that must be present in the peahen's egg in order to produce the pattern of just one single feather of the adult tail. That particular scientist gave up his attempt. His name was Herbert Spencer. He admitted frankly that this "organizing process transcends human knowledge. It is not enough to say we cannot know it; we must say we cannot even conceive it in our frail mind." Think about the vast "memory" bank of peacocks since God created them.

However, chipmunks are something else. The Forestry Digest, some years ago, gave an extract that two research workers had found that chipmunks and squirrels plant about 17,000 trees per acre as a result of "forgetting" where they buried their nut-seeds. Think about it! What would appear to skeptics and doubters of the Creator as a failure falls out to the glory of God. Although chipmunks have both a memory and a "forgetory," this was ordained by God with purpose. Many thousands of nut-seeds are purposely buried and forgotten. In reality this is a superior kind of wisdom given to them by God. He reveals His care in creating chipmunks who would deliberately forget where they buried most of their seeds so that the sacrifice would fall out for the benefit of mankind. The chipmunks were created with a "forgetory" in their memory. Think of it! God gave them a deliberate "forgetory" for our good.

Man has been given a memory that is capable of great things. Some have a photographic mind; others, a cooperative system of memory for recall. We are being told in our generation that man is capable of fifteen trillion experiences in a lifetime of 75 years. However, man also needs a "forgetory." When we repent of our sins and confess the Savior, Micah reveals that God "wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea" (7:19). Jeremiah said that the Lord "will remember their sin no more" (31:34). God's "forgetory" blots them out. He did that for David (Psalm 51:1 & 9). "Forgetting the things which are behind," our memory is fixed upon God!