Across the Preacher’s Desk: In Remembrance

March 10, 2022 - It was one night a few weeks ago, my wife was watching Hallmark Movies and I just wasn’t in the mood for a Hallmark Movie. I was more in the mood for an old World War II Movie. Well, I started searching Amazon Prime and found an old movie I had only seen once before. I had watched it on the “Late Show” with my dad in the mid 1960’s. So I tuned in and watched the movie.

As I watched that movie, as I got lost in the action, I was a young boy once again, I was laying on the couch, my dad was sitting in his recliner, the fire was crackling in the fireplace and I relished the memories brought back. It was almost like daddy was in the room with me again, though he has been gone over a quarter of a century. I also saw the movie in color this time because in the mid 1960’s we only had a black and white television.

Yet, thinking about the memories that movie brought back, also made me think about the Lord’s Supper. The memorial feast we observe each Lord’s Day in memory of our suffering savior. When Jesus gave those emblems to his disciples he told them, “this do in remembrance of me”. Those warm feelings I felt watching that old movie are the kind of feelings we should have every Lord’s Day when we remember the sacrifice Jesus made for us. I hope you are planning to assemble with the saints of God this coming Lord’s Day and that taking the Lord’s Supper will be part of that assembly. The Lord will be there.

It’s something to think about. . . tbp

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