According to their pasture, so were they filled; They were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
III. Why is it such a sin to forget God?  First, it is a denial of the very reason for man's being created by the Father, that of glorifying God; and if a man is not going to do the principal thing for which God created and designed him, he is no better than a dog, and has become a thing of no cosmic value whatever.  Man apart from his relation to God has the same eternal status as a bushel of turnips, a shovel full of coal, or any of the lower animals of nature.  Secondly, forgetting God, is a mark of the basest ingratitude.  It is always deplorable to see men forget friends from whose hands they received benefit and encouragement in the race of life; but what about God remembered not?  God created men in his own likeness, endowed them with marvelous abilities, unspeakable privileges, and wonderful glory.  How can men forget a God like that?  Men may forget other things and retrieve the blunder, but forgetting God is an irrevocable mistake, the fatal blunder, the mortal error from which there is no recovery; for God will remember and punish wicked men whether they remember him or not.