Forgetting
God
Permit us to quote from Charles Spurgeon Morning and Evening
Morning
“This do in
remembrance of me.”
- 1Co_11:24
It seems then, that Christians may
forget Christ! There could be no need for this loving exhortation, if there
were not a fearful supposition that our memories might prove treacherous. Nor
is this a bare supposition: it is, alas! too well confirmed in our experience,
not as a possibility, but as a lamentable fact. It appears almost impossible
that those who have been redeemed by the blood of the dying Lamb, and loved
with an everlasting love by the eternal Son of God, should forget that gracious
Saviour; but, if startling to the ear, it is, alas! too apparent to the eye to
allow us to deny the crime. Forget him who never forgot us! Forget him who
poured his blood forth for our sins! 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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“And that is why regular communion,
personal and private, corporate and public, is important.”
--JDP
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