Morning, April 26
Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
1 Corinthians 11:24
"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.