Consider this a “throwback Thursday” post. I found this is one of my old folders. I’m not sure I ever got to use it anywhere on a Sunday morning, at least not in this form, but the concept has stuck with me all these years.
I’ve been thinking much about remembrance lately, especially as it has to do with the Lord’s Table. I read an article about how the idea of remembrance not only relates to the past, but it has present and future implications as well. Originally, I had every intention of writing a communion meditation on that theme, but recently, the Holy Spirit reminded me about what the Bible means when an author says God “remembers.”
Three times in the flood story of Genesis, God says he remembers or will remember Noah and the covenant represented by the rainbow. Numerous other times in the OT, the biblical author says something similar about our heavenly Father. God just doesn’t say, “Oh yeah, I made a promise,” but rather when he remembers, he actively begins fulfilling that promise and the terms of the covenant. Remembering for God is not just a mental act but a practical act as well.
I want to challenge us this morning to take this same attitude when it comes to partaking of the bread and the cup in remembrance of Christ. Let this not just be a mental act of remembering that Jesus died for our sins but let us act on the pledge each of us made to Christ when we professed our trust in him. Let us wait on the Lord in all we do and pledge ourselves again to live and act faithfully in him. Let us act in accordance with his promise of salvation, knowing that God is faithful to bring us to that day of ultimate salvation in him.
Scripture: Lamentations 3:19–26
19 I remember my affliction and my wandering,
the bitterness and the gall.
20 I well remember them,
and my soul is downcast within me.
21 Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope:
22 Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
23 They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
24 I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him.”
25 The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him,
to the one who seeks him;
26 it is good to wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.[1]
For prayer: Jeremiah 14:20–21
20 O Lord, we acknowledge our wickedness
and the guilt of our fathers;
we have indeed sinned against you.
21 For the sake of your name do not despise us;
do not dishonor your glorious throne.
Remember your covenant with us and do not break it.[2]
Pastor Scott Stocking, M.Div.
[1]The Holy Bible : New International Version, electronic ed. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996, ©1984). La 3:19–26.
[2]The Holy Bible : New International Version, electronic ed. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996, ©1984). Je 14:20–21.
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