When Jesus broke the bread and poured the wine, He instructed the apostles to do it again, "in remembrance of Me." This word "remembrance" appears only a few times in Scripture. Three of its four NT appearances are in Luke 22 and 1 Cor 11, describing the institution of the Lord's Supper. So if you know the phrase "this do in remembrance of me," and then see at the head of Ps 38 "a psalm for remembrance," know that this psalm is about the holy passion of our Lord. When you read and sing this psalm, remember Him. Remember His agony and bitter passion. The king's pain takes up most of this psalm. He describes, not His own sin, but what it felt like to carry ours. We can and should use this psalm, as David did, to bemoan the pain of bearing our own sin. But we must never forget to use it as a psalm of remembrance too. Remember His sufferings under the burden of your sin, a burden He most willingly undertook so you could be saved and the Father glorified — but also, a burden that very nearly crushed Him. Look at v. 8: "I am benumbed and badly crushed." I'm not sure that there's a good crushing. I wouldn't even want to be crushed in the best way possible. But Jesus Christ was crushed badly. It was the weight of God's wrath on your sin and mine, voluntarily assumed and paid for by Him, that crushed Him. Yet in bearing the weight of sin, He never ceased to cry out in prayer. "The hour is coming when all of you will leave me and I will be alone," He said. "But I am not alone, for the Father is with me." And since His Father was with Him, He talked to Him.
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...
