Choices are for the Living " "Remember Me"

Choices are for the living 

Luke 22:19-22, “And he took the bread, gave thanks and broke it, and he gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.  But the hand of him who is going to betray me is with mine on the table.  The Son of Man will go as it has been decreed, but woe to that man who betrays him.”

If you read in Luke 22:48, Judas, one of the disciples sitting at the table with Jesus, betrayed him, for thirty silver coins, the mere price of a slave.  What are we betraying the Lord with? Are we so busy worshipping idols of the mind that many of us have filled our memory with images of lies?  In all creation, in every tree, flower, star, ocean, mountain, and valley the Lord calls out “Remember Me.”

Deuteronomy 6:12, “Be careful not to forget your God who brought you out of Egypt.” Why did Moses say be careful not to forget your God? Because remember Moses has been through Egypt with the Israelites and he knows all too well how quickly they forget. In Joshua 4, the Lord is instructing Joshua to choose twelve men one from each tribe to take up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan and stack them where they were staying for the night to serve as a memorial, because someday their children will ask, “What do these stones mean?” The Lord said, “Tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord.” The people in the Bible were always erecting a memorial in the Old Testament in honor of the Lord.  It is interesting to know that the word memorial in Hebrew means, to remember. How can we remember?

 Remember Me, when you’re in airport and you see another passenger embracing her elderly parent as if this might be her last chance to feel, touch, and experience the love of a parent  as the tears form a snow globe of memories of her once adorned childhood . “Remember Me.”

What are we doing in remembrance of Jesus? How can we remember the cross if we have forgotten the suffering?  How is it that we can walk by a hurting person and chose to ignore their pain?  Does love compel us anymore or have we let society, television, news, radio, the media in all forms desensitize our compassion for one another? Do we look at life as if it was a movie where we sit down and have popcorn and watch, or have we considered we are actually written in the script, we have a part to play?  Have we let the bread of Christ become a snack?  Christ died for all. What does “all” mean to you, does it mean the elite, the social acceptable, the rich, the admired, the Christians?  Maybe, just maybe, could it mean, the women or man behind a prison wall, could it mean the neighbor who undoubtedly despises the God you love, could remembering Jesus mean serving of one another not for gain but for plain unadulterated love. “Remember Me,” when you’re standing in the grocery store and the lady in front of you begins to put things back because her wallet has dictated the amount of food she will be purchasing today. Proverbs 28:27, “He who gives to the poor will lack nothing, but he who closes his eyes to them receives many curses.”   “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”  Wow! Could this be how we are to remember Jesus by how we remember one another?  “Remember me,” when you get a phone call in the middle of the night from a friend who found out her son had been doing drugs and now his only breath comes from a machine. Isaiah 40:1, “Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.” “Remember Me,” when the doctor enters the room with a solace face to confirm what he had already suspected all along. “1 Peter 2:24, (b) “by his wounds you have been healed.”  “Remember Me,” when the people I trusted to love you, hurt you in ways the world will never know. “Revelation 21:4, “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”  “Remember Me,” Jesus called us to remember His body that was broken for us, have we betrayed Jesus by our lack of remembrance? Jesus said, “The one who is going to betray me hand is in mine.”  Could we be in denial that we as born, bought, believers could ever betray our Jesus by the lack of our memorials?  2Timothy 2:8 “Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David. This is my gospel.” This is it Readers, this is the gospel,  “Remember Jesus is raised from the dead.” Choices are for the living.

 Stacking my stones for the Glory of God……Michele Davenport

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