I don’t know about you but I’m VERY good at forgetting. I forget to take lunch to work.
I forget to take my car keys to the car. I forget my wife’s birthday. (Strangely she doesn’t forget that I forgot …)
In our passage this morning, Moses is talking to the Israelites just before they cross the Jordan to go into the Promised Land. He tells them in verse 2 “Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years”. Why? “to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.” Then in verse 11: “Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God” Why? Verse 14: “then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.”
In 1 Corinthians 11:23-25 (HCSB) Paul tells us one of the reasons (emphasis – words in bold – by me, as you can’t hear me reading this passage) why we in Churches of Christ take communion EVERY week:
“For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: On the night when He was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread, gave thanks, broke it, and said, “This is My body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.” In the same way, after supper He also took the cup and said, “This cup is the new covenant established by My blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
Being so forgetful, I am so very thankful that every week in church in different words by different people, we remember Jesus and his sacrifice for our sins.