COMMUNION MEDITATION: We won’t forget … really?

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Twenty years ago a new catch phrase took hold of Americans across the country: “Never forget.”

That came from the tragic loss of 2,977 lives from the terrorist attacks we now simply refer to as “9/11.”

Each year since then, in memory of those lost lives, there have been various services and memorials.

So we don’t forget.

But we do forget.

For most Americans, on most days for the past 20 years, we haven’t remembered those people who died on 9/11. We do remember them sometimes, occasionally, every now and then. Some of us remember more often than others.

But we don’t remember every day.

The wound almost seems fresh today, on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Collectively, we’re remembering afresh.

As a nation, as Americans, it’s important to remember.

It’s interesting how something even as profound as 9/11 slips from our thinking so often. As already noted, it’s not something we remember every day of the year.

Neither is something that was more tragic, more profound, and yet exceedingly wonderful — the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ, God wrapped in flesh, willingly, voluntarily sacrificed His body and shed His blood so that we could be saved from sin and it’s terrible consequences.

We remember that … often.

But not daily.

Even something as great as Jesus providing salvation for humanity we forget most days if we don’t discipline ourselves to remember.

So Jesus instituted a memorial for us to help us “never forget,” an observance to remember Him whenever His followers gather together:

“For I pass on to you what I received from the Lord himself. On the night when he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread and gave thanks to God for it. Then he broke it in pieces and said, ‘This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way, he took the cup of wine after supper, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant between God and his people — an agreement confirmed with my blood. Do this in remembrance of me as often as you drink it,” 1 Corinthians 11:23-25.

May we remember afresh, every day, and not forget.

Scotty