# “Do you not find yourselves forgetful of Jesus?” by Charles H. Spurgeon

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- Published: 2008-04-27T20:26:20-05:00
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‘This do in rememberance of Me.’
 1 Corinthians 11:24

“It seems, then, that Christians may forget Christ. The text implies the possibility
of forgetfulness concerning Him whom gratitude and affection should constrain them
to remember. There could be no need for this loving exhortation, if there were not
a fearful supposition that our memories might prove treacherous, and our remembrance
superficial in its character, or changing in its nature.

Nor is this a bare supposition: it is, alas, too well confirmed in our experience,
not as a possibility, but as a lamentable fact. It seems at first sight too gross
a crime to lay at the door of converted men. It appears almost impossible that those
who have been redeemed by the blood of the dying Lamb should ever forget their Ransomer;
that those who have been loved with an everlasting love by the eternal Son of God,
should ever forget that Son; but if startling to the ear, it is alas, too apparent
to the eye to allow us to deny the fact.

Forget Him who ne’er forgot us! Forget Him who poured His blood forth for our sins!
Forget Him who loved us even to the death! Can it be possible? Yes it is not only
possible, but conscience confesses that it is too sadly a fault of all of us, that
we can remember anything except Christ. The object which we should make the monarch
of our hearts, is the very thing we are most inclined to forget.

Where one would think that memory would linger, and unmindfulness would be an unknown
intruder, that is the spot which is desecrated by the feet of forgetfulness, and
that the place where memory too seldom looks. I appeal to the conscience of every
Christian here: Can you deny the truth of what I utter? Do you not find yourselves
forgetful of Jesus? Some creature steals away your heart, and you are unmindful 
of Him upon whom your affection ought to be set.

Some earthly business engrosses your attention when you should have your eye steadily
fixed upon the cross. It is the incessant round of world, world, world; the constant
din of earth, earth, earth, that takes away the soul from Christ. Oh! my friends,
is it not too sadly true that we can recollect anything but Christ, and forget nothing
so easy as Him whom we ought to remember? While memory will preserve a poisoned 
weed, it suffereth the Rose of Sharon to wither.”

–Charles H. Spurgeon, “[The Rememberance of Christ](http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0002.htm),”
Delivered on Sabbath Evening, January 7th, 1855, at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.

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