Studies have shown sunlight stimulates nerve cell growth in the hippocampus. God has created the hippocampus in our brain to form, organize, and store memories. We develop amnesia and are not able to form new memories like the time or location of events when our hippocampus is damaged. The hippocampus is also one of the first areas of the brain damaged when suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. By simply getting moderate exposure to sunlight we can prevent memory loss, amnesia, and Alzheimer’s disease! The Psalmist once said “For the LORD God is a sun and shield” Psalms 84:11 Like our God is a shield, so is the sun a shield. It not only protects our hippocampus from being damaged but also boosts our immune system to fight off a host of other diseases which affect our memory.
If you have, like me, regrettably done things to destroy your memory we need not to fret ourselves. (Gen 2:7) “the LORD God” who “formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life” has “given unto us exceeding great and precious promises” (2 Peter 1:4) dealing with the restoration of our memory. One of them is found in (Proverbs 10:7) “The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.” One of the manifold blessings of God to improve our memory is the sunshine! Our prayer can be as the one recorded in (Psalms 67:1-2) “God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah. That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.” Then “the light of the knowledge of the glory of God” that shines “in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:6) can arise as “the Sun of righteousness… with healing in his wings” Malachi 4:2.
With God’s help we need not live with a rotten memory for the rest of our life. But we can “be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” (Romans 12:2) It is the will of God that you have an ever improving memory. For with it we are able to say to our Father in heaven, “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.” (Psalms 119:11) Paul also revealed in 1 Corinthians 15:1-2 how you are saved “if ye keep in memory” the gospel he preached to us. With an renewed and improved memory simply aided by sunshine we can say as did our Savior when tempted of the devil “Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.” (Matthew 4:10) By an adequate exposure to sunshine it will actually help to overcome sin in our life and a closer walk with “the LORD God” who “is a sun and shield” (Psalms 84:11)