Can We Forget HIM, Who Loved Us Even To Death!

Can it be possible?
(Charles Spurgeon)

"Do this in remembrance 
of ME!" (1 Corinthians 11:24)

It appears that Christians 
may forget CHRIST! 

There would be no need 
for this loving exhortation--
if there were not a fearful possibility 
that our memories might prove 
treacherous. Nor is this an empty 
notion. It is, sadly, 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--
could forget their gracious SAVIOR! 

But if startling to the ear, sadly, 
it is too apparent to the eye 
to allow us to deny the crime. 

Can we forget HIM--
who never forgot us! 
Can we forget HIM--
who poured HIS blood 
out for our sins! 


Can we forget HIM--
who loved us even to death! 


Can it be possible?

Yes, it is not only possible--
but conscience confesses that 
is is too sadly a fault with all of us. 
Instead of HIM being a permanent 
resident in our memories--
we treat HIM as a visitor. 

The cross--
where one would expect 
that memory would linger--
is desecrated by the feet 
of forgetfulness. 


Doesn't your conscience say 
that this is true? Don't you find 
yourselves forgetful of JESUS? 
Some other love steals 
away your heart--
and you are unmindful 
of HIM upon whom your 
chief affection ought to be set. 

Some earthly business 
engrosses your attention--
when you ought to be fixed 
steadily upon the cross. It is 
the incessant turmoil of the world, 
the constant attraction of earthly things--
which takes the soul away from CHRIST! 

While memory works to 
preserve a poisonous weed--
it allows the ROSE of SHARON 
to wither!

Let us charge ourselves to tie 
a heavenly forget-me-not around 
our hearts for JESUS our BELOVED, 
and whatever else we let slip, let us 
hold tight to HIM!

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