Today’s Devotional: Have you Forgotten Jesus?
When’s the last time you thought about your favorite elementary school teacher?
Even though we spent innumerable hours hanging on that teacher’s every word, we eventually forget about them. The memories fade and we forget the advice and knowledge they passed on to us. We might think about them fondly now and again, but not with the frequency that we did when we were younger.
In 1 Corinthians 11:24, Paul recalls the words of Jesus at the Last Supper. As Jesus hands the bread to his disciples he tells them that whenever they practice communion to “do this in remembrance of me.” The idea of having to remember Christ can seem like an odd request, how could we ever forget our savior? But, as Spurgeon points out in this devotional from Morning and Evening, life has a way of distracting us from even Jesus:
Forget him who loved us even to the death! Can it be possible? Yes, it is not only possible, but conscience confesses that it is too sadly a fault with all of us, that we suffer him to be as a wayfaring man tarrying but for a night. He whom we should make the abiding tenant of our memories is but a visitor therein. The cross where one would think that memory would linger, and unmindfulness would be an unknown intruder, is desecrated by the feet of forgetfulness. Does not your conscience say that this is true? Do you not find yourselves forgetful of Jesus? Some creature steals away your heart, and you are unmindful of him upon whom your affection ought to be set. Some earthly business engrosses your attention when you should fix your eye steadily upon the cross. It is the incessant turmoil of the world, the constant attraction of earthly things which takes away the soul from Christ. While memory too well preserves a poisonous weed, it suffereth the rose of Sharon to wither. Let us charge ourselves to bind a heavenly forget-me-not about our hearts for Jesus our Beloved, and, whatever else we let slip, let us hold fast to him.
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Do you make time to remember Jesus before you take communion?
