Spurgeon: April AM
* 04/26/AM
"This do in remembrance of Me."
--1 Corinthians 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.