Fri 5 Jun, 2009
This is a repost of an email sent to me by my pastor in preparation for communion on Sunday.
This Sunday we will be remembering the Savior with communion. Why do we do this? Take a few moments to consider the words of Richard Alleine, a Puritan writer:
“Though the gospel may still be received as an undoubted and unquestionable truth, though the evidence of its truth may be so clear that we cannot contradict or question it, yet the weight of it may not be so much felt upon our hearts; the truths believed may not be so much minded , nor so thoroughly considered as to leave any powerful impressions of them upon our hearts. Those great things, the worth and value of a soul, the dreadfulness of losing a soul, the danger that they are in of losing their souls, the excellency and necessity of Christ, the eternal weight of glory, the everlasting vengeance of a God against the unrighteousness of men, though all these things be believed and acknowledged, yet they may not for the time be so duly minded and meditated on; they may be so much out of our eye, out of our thoughts, that the sense of them, and the efficacy of that sense, may seem even to be utterly lost. Friends, it is not the being of these great things, no, nor the bare believing that they are, but the minding and frequent considering of them, the having that height and depth, that life and death in our eye, that will affect and work upon the heart; and Christians, through their own carelessness and heedlessness, may have even lost the sight of both of heaven and hell. Things present may have so filled and overpowered their hearts, as to put things to come quite out of mind; the heart may be so bewitched by this present world, so surrounded with a crowd of carnal pleasures and delights, so swallowed up of worldly cares and contrivances, so intent upon our worldly business and commodity, that we may hereupon drive so heavily on in the matters of eternity, as if we had forgotten that we had a Christ or a soul to be minded.”
From pp.10-11, A Rebuke to Backsliders and a Spur for Loiterers
You have to love the way they name their books :{))
Lord, help me to remember the Savior, to never forget,
Help us Lord as we prepare to remember,
Tom
Art says:
Thank you LORD for this reminder and also a pastor who cares for my soul.