# September and Communion

September has arrived, soon it will be Christmas and new year resolutions all over again. What about this years resolutions? Have you remembered them? Or is it just a figment of lost memory.

We all know remembering is hard to do in this fast paced lives that we live one. We have news articles churning out every minute around the globe, stock and financial information is continually being influenced by things happening around the world. With the internet there will always be something new to look at, facebook updates, latest news, latest gossip, latest recipes, latest comments, we live in a world so full of choice, and while choice can be a good thing, the abundance of choice can so easily stray us away from the things that hold eternal value. 

I don't know where you are in your walk with God, but simply being here, despite whatever circumstance, reflects a choice made, to put aside whatever that could fill up this time slot for personal gain, and choose to remember God's faithfulness, God's goodness, and that's what communion is all about, remembering, not forgetting what was done so many years ago, in a time so different from today, in a culture so alien, for us, that is remembering that Christ bearing the wrath that was meant for us, upon Himself. 

Hudson Taylor described in his calLg to be a missionary to China back in the 19th century, of how he came to a point where he found it a chore to pray and the Bible dull and boring. 

He prayed "Dear God, please give me some work to do for you, as an outlet of my love and gratitude" 

For someone who is in love with the world, that prayer can be the hardest prayer. It's like praying: Dear God, please send me some persecution. Would you dare pray a prayer like that? How would you respond should you one day find yourself in a plea with that amount of burden? Leave it to the elders and leaders of the church? To the youngsters?

I've had the unfortunate privilege to have attended a few churches in my life, and very often I hear from the older folk – "You youngsters should do so and so, we've already done our part during our time" – Sounds familiar? Maybe you've heard it when you were younger. Or maybe you've said so yourself. 

It's so natural to push away or wash our hands away from responsibility thinking that we have earned it, because it is worldly thinking. When we think or say such things as this, we immediately declare ourselves as Lord over our lives, we have brought forward the finish Le, as though we know the entire plan God has laid out for our lives. We think what goes on in our worldly economy equally translates the same in God's economy. May I remind you all, and myself, that in the bible we, followers of Christ, have been described as disciples, soldiers, slaves, servants, yes we are more than conquerors, but not conquerors over our own lives, not boss or owners over our lives, but through Christ death has lost it's string and we are reminded to continually pressing on toward the finish Le God has set out for us regardless of age, ability or disability. There is no retirement in God's economy. 

It is so easy to forget God. That's why we have communion, to remember. And there's two ways to remember, the first is when things go wrong and we start begging for a miracle, and the second is this, that when we are found in him, when God is so real in your life, that to remember comes so naturally, like how we remember to love our spouse or kids, it's not forced, it just comes naturally, and that's how it should be in our relationship with the true and living god. Relationship is the key to remembering. Relationship is the key to salvation.