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“But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh … Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him” (Genesis 40:14,23).
Joseph had been very kind to the Pharaoh’s chief butler when the butler was in prison. He had noticed that both he and the chief baker were sad, and had interpreted their dreams for them. But when Joseph asked for a simple favor from the chief butler, he forgot all about Joseph, and said nothing to Pharaoh.
The Lord Jesus has done much more for us than Joseph did for the chief butler, and He has asked us to remember Him. He gave everything for us, for He suffered under the judgment of God for sin, and then died in order to save us. Have we remembered His request to remember Him? Before He went to the cross, the Lord Jesus showed His disciples how He wanted them to remember Him, by partaking of a loaf of bread and a cup of wine. Joseph felt it when the chief butler forgot all about Him, and the Lord Jesus feels it if we forget about all He did for us.
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