There is something very touching in the plea which our Lord puts before us in 1 Corinthians 11:2525After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. (1 Corinthians 11:25). He makes the appeal to us to do it “in remembrance of Me.” It is a commemorative act one which shows that our hearts have personal affection to Himself.
The sweetest part is that you and I should be in the wilderness to remember Jesus to sympathize with Him in His sufferings and death! He can look on us poor sinners—yet saved ones—and say to His Father, “There are a few gathered in My name remembering Me.” And that is joy and refreshment to His heart.
It is bearing affection to Him. Personal remembrance to Him is the sweet thought and assurance not mere doctrinal knowledge. Often we find much personal love to the Lord when there is very little clear understanding of truth.
Adapted from The Girdle of Truth, 1863