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Don’t you like it when someone remembers your birthday? We all love to be remembered. And if there’s old folks in your circle, be sure to remember them all the time. But look, how good is it when GOD remembers you? Did you know you can pray to ask God to remember you?
Jacob Astley was a Royalist commander in the English Civil War. Just before the battle of Edghill in sixteen forty-two, Astley knelt down and prayed: “O Lord, Thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget Thee, do not thou forget me.” I like that.
Nehemiah’s prayer
In the Bible, we find one Nehemiah organising the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the Temple. Toward the end of his work, in the book of Nehemiah chapter thirteen, he prayed this prayer:
Nehemiah 13:14 Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.
And a few verses on he prayed:
Neh 13:31b Remember me, O my God, for good. (KJV)
And those are the last words of the book of Nehemiah. It’s a humble, lovely prayer, and an example for us. But we can pray with more assurance. In the psalms we find a prayer to the Almighty to remember his grace and mercy and to remember the psalmist, not now for his own good deeds, but for the goodness of God himself. Watch this, it’s in psalm twenty-five.
Psalm 25:6 Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old. 7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’ sake, O LORD.
The thief on the cross
There is just one person in the New Testament who asked the Lord Jesus to remember him. I wonder if you can bring to mind who it was? I’m sure you got it. It’s the thief on the cross. Jesus was crucified between two thieves. One flung a whole lot of rubbish at him, demanding that he save all three of them.
But the other was a God-fearing man, for all his misdeeds. The Gospel of Luke says, in chapter twenty-three:
Luke 23:40 But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. 42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
Now here I’ll acknowledge Lawrence Tureaud, the actor Mr T. (Yes, he’s born again.) He’s pointed out a couple of things which we might all have missed.
Firstly, that man was the only one who called Jesus ‘Lord’ during his crucifixion. Yes, lots of people called Jesus ‘Lord’ during his ministry. Many addressed him as Lord after his resurrection. But only that man called him ‘Lord’ while he was being crucified.
Secondly, he said it was not a matter of ‘if’, but of ‘when’ our Lord would come into his kingdom. Pilate had put up his notice ‘King of the Jews’ but that thief on the cross knew the man dying beside him WOULD come into his kingdom. Only the Holy Spirit gives an insight like that to someone. And just look at the response:
Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
You can pray like Nehemiah, for God to remember you for the good you have done. You can pray like the psalmist, for the Lord to remember you for the sake of his goodness. You can pray like Jacob Astley, for the Lord Jesus to remember you even if you forget him. Or you can pray with the thief: ‘Lord, remember me, in your kingdom.’
If you pray that kind of a prayer, with that kind of faith, Jesus will never forget you. Even if someone else forgets your birthday, he will still remember you, all the time.
Come on, pray with me: ‘Lord, remember me.’
SCRIPT ENDS
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