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Remember
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- Thought For Today
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- May 18, 2026
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- 212
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Summary
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 18th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in Psalm 37:31: ” The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.” Then we go to 1 Corinthians 11:25. Jesus says: “ This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” I am talking about Holy Communion. It’s very important for us to remember the ordinances, commandments, and laws of God. That is what keeps you and me on the straight road, on the right road. Do you know what a phylactery is? A phylactery is something that the Orthodox Jews use when they have time with the Lord. Many years ago, I was flying in an Israeli airline to Jerusalem, and an Orthodox Jew was sitting across the aisle from me, and during the night, I saw him get up and put a shawl around his head. He took a leather band and he put it around his left hand with a little box on it. He took another leather band, put it around his head, with a little box on his forehead, and inside those two little boxes are Holy Scriptures. He does it during his quiet time. Why? Because he wants to remember the Lord, his God. Now, Jesus said every time you and I have Holy Communion, we do it and we remember what Christ has done for us. Gill and I have communion often, on our own, in the house. Maybe after breakfast, sometimes maybe after lunch, depending on our situation, just the two of us. And we take bread, we break it, and we remember the body of Christ broken for us, and then we take the cup, a little glass of grape juice, and we remember the blood of Jesus shed so that our sins would be washed away. We need to remember and not forget what the Lord has done for us. Many years ago when I was a man of twenty…