Over the next 8 days I remember my Dad (11/7) & Mom’s (11/12) birthdays and celebrate my wife’s (11/15). Memories can be a curse or a blessing. They are a curse if they anchor us to our past. But they are a blessing if they continue to positively affect our present.

If we connect them with faith, hope, love, compassion, care, appreciation, or gratitude – then they are a blessing. But, if we tie them to fear, guilt, anger, regret, or selfishness – they become a curse. They then anchor us to the past making us ineffective in the present.

Similarly, every Lord’s Day I use my memory when I partake of the Lord’s Supper. I reflect to the night my Savior was betrayed by Judas.

With deep APPRECIATION I recall how He took the bread and gave thanks for it, and then broke it while saying: “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me” (1 Corinthians 11:24).

And then, in the same way, with GRATITUDE in my heart I reflect on what He did after the supper. He took the cup and said: “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me” (1 Corinthians 11:25).

Friend, it is right, while we still walk in this world, “to stir up by way of reminder” (2 Pt.1:13) all that our Lord and Savior did for us. Let us remember to meet around the Lord’s table every Sunday – for in doing so we CONTINUE TO PROCLAIM His “death until He comes” (1 Cor.11:26).