Precious Memories

Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee. the upright...: or, they love thee uprightly - Song of Solomon 1:4

    We all have pleasant and precious memories of times and people in our life that brought great joy and happiness. Often we are caught up in the nostalgia of yesteryear. Sometimes it is almost as if we were there again. Eventually we are awakened to the reality those days are gone and we can never go back, and can only relive them in our memories. As precious as those memories are, they cannot be compared to the preciousness of Christ’s ever-present love for us, his people.

    The Gospel stirs our minds to remember he loves us with an everlasting love, and how that love was manifest for us. It was his sovereign, unchanging love that sent him to this world. It was his love that made him a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief as he lived a sinless life for us. It was his loved that moved him to suffer untold agonies of soul and body as he was willingly made sin for us, and died on the tree. And now upon the throne of his glory, he reigns in his office of High Priest, in love, making intercession for us!

    These living memories do not cause us to look back with sadness, but rather to look forward to when we shall see him who loved us, face to face. Until then—We will be glad and rejoice in thee—we will remember thy love more than wine.