Remembrance - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2025

This is My body, which is for you: this do in remembrance of Me.
1 Corinthians 11:24

Remembrance
Take notice of the word "remember." It is not a Christ as He now exists. His body is now glorified. That is not a remembrance. It is a remembrance of what He was on the cross, a body slain, shed blood, not a glorified body. It is remembered, though, by those who are now united to Him in glory into which He is entered. As risen with Him in glory, they look back to that blessed work of love which gave them a place there. They drink also the cup of remembrance of Him.

In a word, it is Christ looked on as dead. There is not such a Christ now: it is the remembrance of Him. It is not only the value of His sacrifice, but also the remembrance of Himself. The apostle then shows us who it is that died. Impossible to find two words, the bringing together of which has so important a meaning—dead Christ. How many things are comprised in that. He who is called the Lord has died! What love! What purpose! What efficacy! What results! The Lord Himself gave Himself up for us. We celebrate His death. At the same time it is the end of God's relation with the world except for judgment. This death broke every link—has proved the impossibility of any. We show forth His death until the rejected Lord shall return to establish new bonds of association by receiving us to Himself. It is this which we proclaim when we keep the ordinance.

Besides this, it is a declaration that the blood on which the new covenant is founded has already been shed; it was established in this blood. The object of the Spirit of God here is to set before us that which attaches the heart to Him in remembering His death.

J. N. Darby
We hear Thy voice, blest Savior, "This do, remember Me":

With joyful hearts responding, we do remember Thee.

G. W. Frazer