Remember ...

It’s “Ash Wednesday.”

“Memento!” the Latin of the once a while ago Ceremony declares. “Remember!”

“People,” the Centuries ago writer notes, “need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.”

What is it that we need to “remember;” of which we need to be “reminded”?

“Dust you are. To dust you will return!” (Genesis 3: 19)

“All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.” (Ecclesiastes 3: 20)

Our condition. That’s what we need to remember. This is our state. Since the first of our race disobeyed we will “surely die.” We will “strut and fret our hour upon the stage and be heard about no more.”

Today we remember desperation.

Today, remembering, we begin a journey. A journey not our own with a destination very much our own. We begin a walk of 40 and more days to our death; our death died by someone else to rob it of its finality.

Only as we remember the utter desperation of this death will we understand the cost to Him who is dying. When and solely when we witness, again, the drama and magnificence of His triumph will we once more crown Him our conquering King!

Then, yes then, again, will we freely surrender to His mastery.

Walk with Him a while would you?

Remember you’re mortal!

Relive His Passion once more!

In reliving His dying you’ll be reminded He’s put an end to death and given you LIFE!

LIFE THAT NEVER ENDS!