Forget HIM not...!

I like Adam Sandler movies. This past weekend I watched one of my favorites, 50 First Dates.  In the movie Adam plays “Henry” a ladies’ man who dated and then dropped women like a bad habit. Until one day he met “Lucy,” and his life was never the same. He falls completely in love with Lucy at first site. When he approaches her she likes him as well; they enjoy breakfast together and agree to meet the next day to do the same.

Only the next morning when he arrives at the café, Lucy doesn’t remember who he is. Soon Lucy’s friends and family let Henry know that she had a tragic accident in which she lost her short-term memory. Every night Lucy’s memories of that day’s events are wiped clean. This news is hard for Henry to believe and even harder for him to accept.

He goes to work right away trying to figure ways to make Lucy fall in love with him over and over again each day. He eventually marries her and they have a child. Every morning when she wakes up, he has a video waiting for her so that she will remember him before she leaves her bedroom.

This movie is similar to the newer released movie which is based on a true story The Vow. In The Vow a newly married couple is involved in a car accident. The wife completely loses her memory of her husband. Just like in 50 First Dates, the husband goes to work right away trying to help her remember him but to no avail. In the end, however, once he lets her go, she learns to love him all over again because of whom he is, not because she remembers him.

Imagine being loved so much by someone, that even when you forget them, they do everything in their power to help you remember. And even if you fight them, they wait patiently for you to come back.  Isn’t this very much like Jesus’ love? Even when we seem to forget him, sometimes daily, He’s still right there loving us anyway. At the times we take His love for granted, or act as if we have “forgotten” Him, He is still close by waiting on us to remember how much He loves us.

In both of these movies the husbands follow Ephesians 5:25 which says, “Husbands love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her.” Let us daily make an effort to remember the love Christ has for us and “FORGET HIM NOT!”

Think about it.