to remember some important things
-- precisely so that we don’t forget them.
And what are those things God doesn’t want us to forget?
• We need to remember, to be reminded,
of how much God loves each one of us.
• And we need to remember, we need to be reminded,
of how much God asks of us and expects of us, every day.
God has expectations of how we live our lives, every day.
• And we need to remember, we need to be reminded,
of how responsible each of us is for those who have
so much less than we do.
And especially when we get caught up in all that we have
can we be tempted to forget others – and to forget God.
• And we need to remember, we need to be reminded,
that there’s a truth in God’s Word here,
a truth wiser than any truth any one of us might come up with.
• And we need to remember, we need to be reminded,
that sometimes we easily forget the most important things
and let the least important things fascinate us
and shape our lives, our choices and our decisions.
• When we gather together for this
we need to remember precisely
what Jesus asked us to remember
when he was at table with his friends.
To remember how he took bread, blessed it, broke it
and gave it to his friends;
to remember how he took a cup of wine, blessed it
and shared it with his friends
and then said, “do this in MEMORY of me…”
It’s his way of saying,
“Please, don’t forget me!
I want to be with you and I want you to be with me.”
And every time we come to this table to remember him,
he is present to us in his Word
and in the Bread and Cup of Communion.
There’s no better way to remember Jesus
than the way he himself gave us to remember him:
here at the altar, where the shadow of his Cross
reminds us of just how much God loves every one of us.
