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Remember Me

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 remember me     In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the title character has suspicions about his uncle regarding his father’s death. Those suspicions are confirmed when Hamlet speaks with his father’s ghost. The ghost admonishes Hamlet to action in his final words to his son by saying, “Remember me.”

     Although not in the form of a ghost, Jesus asks us to remember Him in one of His last acts before going to the cross. As He was gathered in that upper room with His twelve apostles, Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper. He took from the unleavened bread and the fruit of the vine and He instructed them to eat and drink (Matthew 26:26-28). In so doing, they were to remember His sacrifice for their sins and the sins of all mankind. Jesus told them to “do this in remembrance of me” (Luke 22:19b NKJV).

     Later in his writing to the church in Corinth, Paul would repeat this admonition to remember the Lord by partaking in the Lord’s Supper. “For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes” (1 Corinthians 11:26). We also see in Scripture that it was upon the first day of the week, Sunday, that this memorial of the Lord was observed (Acts 20:7).

     There are many things that we may remember and make remembrances regarding them. It may be a special day in history. It may be a group of people who gave their lives in the defense of freedom. It may be in remembering some great leader or president. However, there is no one more deserving of our remembrances than the One who died to give us life. Let us be sure to remember Him each and every Lord’s Day especially. If you would like to know more about the One who died for your sins, come and see what God’s word has to say about Him.

Don’t I Know You?

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who-am-iMaybe this has never happened to you, or maybe it has.  You walk into a store and you see someone who looks familiar to you.  You know that you know them from somewhere, but you cannot recall their name or where you know them from.  Perhaps you walk up to them and say, “Don’t I know you?”

While it is often easy for us to remember faces, remembering names or where we may have seen someone before can sometimes be difficult.  Many times it does not matter that we cannot remember every passing acquaintance in our lives, because most likely they do not remember us either.

 However, if this is a person that we have an intimate relationship with, we had better remember their name and where we know them from!  This leads to the question of whether or not we know God, and if He knows us.  The importance of knowing God, really knowing Him, is seen in Paul’s second letter to the Thessalonians.  Paul writes, “and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Thes. 1:7-8).  Since Jesus will take vengeance on those who do not know God, it is imperative that we know Him.

 It is also important that God knows who we are.  Towards the end of the Sermon on the Mount Jesus declares that those who call Him Lord, but fail to do the will of the Father will be like those He does not know.  They will be told to depart from Him for eternity (Matthew 7:21-23).  We need to know God.  We need for God to know us.  Do you know Him today?