Remember Me

Remember Me

We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will remember your love. (Song of Solomon 1:4)

This is My body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of Me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in My blood, which is shed for you. (Luke 22:19-20, AV)

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)

The Song of Solomon helps us to express the joy and gladness we have in the Lord Jesus by putting into words what is in our hearts this morning, “We will remember your love.”

Each Sunday morning it never ceases to amaze me that, from the majesty of heaven, the Lord Jesus looks into this world with a desire in His heart to gather us together to remember Him. We think of this when we read, in this same lovely book, “Let me see your face, Let me hear your voice” (Song of Solomon 2:14).

This desire of the Lord Jesus is the same when we met in our thousands, or we met in our twos and threes. And, it is especially true this morning as, throughout the world, we meet in isolation. This isolation does not prevent the Lord of Glory embracing us as one within the reality of His eternal love and delighting in our expressions of worship. The Lord treasures our remembrance of Him. He treasures it in each of our redeemed hearts, and when those hearts join as one in the harmony of worship. The Lord Jesus established His supper on earth just before He went to the cross. He gave us the simplest of emblems to show forth His profound sacrifice of love. It is the time when we put everything else to the side and focus our minds and hearts on the glory of the journey He made to save us. It is the time when we retrace His steps to Calvary and are overwhelmed, once more, by the beauty and power of His death upon the cross. And it is the time when we speak to the Father of all the glories of His eternal Son.

As Paul writes of the Lord Jesus, in the majesty of His resurrection in heaven, re-affirming His constant desire to be remembered by His own, he adds, “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). This morning the Lord Jesus would fill our hearts with His love as we remember Him. He would fill our hearts with faith as we look up to Him where He is in glory and discover we are ever in His heart. And He would fill our hearts with hope that, one glorious day, He will return and He will take us to be with Him eternally in the Father’s home.

Let us come with hearts full and ready to give voice to our thankfulness and to praise our wondrous Saviour.