In memory of me

Friday March 25, 2022

In memory of me

Do this in memory of me. 1 Corinthians 11:24

It seems that Christians could forget Christ. The text implies the possibility of forgetting the one we should remember with gratitude and love. This exhortation would not be necessary, if it were not supposed that our memories are deceptive. This is not a simple supposition : our experience, alas, testifies only too well that this is not a possibility, but a lamentable fact. It seems almost impossible that those who have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb could forget their Redeemer ; that those who have been loved with an eternal love by the eternal Son of God, may forget this Son ; but shocking as it is to the ear, there is no denying its reality. Forget the one who never forgets us ! Forget the one who shed his blood for our sins ! Forget the one who loved us until death ! Is it possible ?

The cause of this forgetting is obvious... We forget Christ, because the regenerated people that we truly are are still subject to corruption and death... We forget Christ because so many other things around us attract our attention : a handful of gold, a whiff of fame, the sound of applause, prosperous business, a house, a home, attract us more than all the glories of the world above.

Christians have many treasures to cherish in their memory. Let them remember their election : elected in him before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4). Let them be aware of their origin : they were pulled out of a quagmire, out of a horrible well. Let them remember their call : they are called of God, and saved by the power of the Holy Spirit... But there is someone who, beyond all these benefits of God, deserves to be remember him forever, a person whose portrait I would frame in gold to place in the inner chamber of my soul. It is the glorious person of Christ, the object of our remembrance.

Excerpts from a sermon preached on January 7, 1855 in England by the evangelist C.H. Spurgeon.

He was only 20 years !

Source (Pleasing the Lord)