Sinclair B. Ferguson

And I suspect that if you've ever tasted that in worship, you feel that much of our worship, our own worship, not just other people's worship, but much of our worship seems flimsy and horizontal.

So, as we reflect on these things, this is a real exhortation to us to recalibrate our thinking about worship.

Worship is about Him, and how badly we need to hear, at least in our hearts if we no longer hear them in our churches, these great words, let us worship God.

We've been thinking this week about the way the Bible places a premium on our ability to remember.

And yet the question we've been asking and trying to answer in different ways is, how do we do that?

It's all very well to be told, remember.

But how can we begin to remember when our problem actually is that we keep on forgetting?

This week I want to think with you about some of the things that Scripture urges us to remember, things that we shouldn't forget.

If you looked up a Bible concordance, I think you would find that the words related to remembering and forgetting appear about 200 different times.

And obviously remembering is a fundamental Christian spiritual duty.

Some of these verses may come to your mind, probably one of the most famous, remember your creator in the days of your youth.

And there's another one I think should come to mind, but I'll mention it later on.

But first of all, a question.

How do you remember?

You know how people tell you, you should think, but how do you go about thinking?

And I think the same is probably true of remembering.

It's all very well to be told to do it, but how do you do it?

Can you really make yourself remember?

When I was a child, I was taught that if there was something I needed to remember, I should tie a knot in my handkerchief, put it in my pocket, and when I needed to remember it, take the handkerchief out, and I would be able to remember it, and it worked for a while.

Later on, when it stopped working, I developed the technique of going to the spot where I thought I had last remembered what I had forgotten, and sometimes I stood there for quite a long time, forgetting.