Lord, Remind Me

LORD, REMIND ME

II Chronicles 5:21

(Antioch Baptist Church: Sunday, August 17th, 2025)

Nothing good have I done,

to deserve God’s own Son,

I’m not worthy of the scars in His hand.

Yet He chose the road to Calvary to die in my stead

Why he loved me, I can’t understand

Roll back the curtain of memory now and then,

show me where you brought me from and where I could have been.

Remember I’m human, and humans forget.

So remind me, remind me dear Lord.

This is a song that many of us have known for decades. But it is more than a song; it is a prayer that Dottie Rambo prayed shortly after signing her first recording contract. She said “Lord, I appreciate you for doing this for me. I know you must have done a million things like this that I did not know or remember, and have not thanked you for. I am human and I forget. But when You do good things, just roll back the curtain and remind me of them and I’ll thank you for them.”

There are times when we fail to recognize what God is doing in our lives. Furthermore, there are times when we fail to remember all that He has done for us in the past. It would be beneficial for us to humbly bow and ask the Lord to remind us of what He has done. I would like to look at 2 Corinthians 5:21 and preach a message simply titled “Lord, Remind Me”.

In this passage Paul points to the amazing work that God has done in the life of a believer. He says, “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” Prior to this the Apostle spoke of the great change that is brought about in those who are “in Christ”. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come” (v17).

There was no one more qualified to describe the transformation that Jesus can bring than the Apostle Paul. Jesus performed a great work in His life and changed him eternally. What Jesus did for Paul, He has done for all who belong to Him. Titus 2:14 says that Jesus “gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.”

There are likely three different types of people who are assembled here today. There are some who need to be transformed by Jesus Christ, there are others who have been transformed by Jesus, and there are some who need to be reminded that they have been transformed by the Savior. As we examine the great truths that are recorded in this verse, we will see the importance of pausing from time to time any saying:

LORD, REMIND ME OF YOUR LOVE

If we are honest, there are times when we are all hard to love. I am thankful for parents, children, and a spouse who possess unconditional love. It is amazing that your family knows you better than anyone else and they love you anyway.

Even greater is the reality that God knows more about you than anyone else. The Lord knows your actions, He knows your thoughts, He knows what you have done, He knows what you are going to do, and He loves you anyway!

Throughout His Epistles, Paul provides several illustrations of the transformation that Jesus brings into our lives. In Colossians 3:8-10 he describes the contrast between the “old man” and the “new man”. He says, “now you must put (all these) away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.”

One of the greatest pictures of what we were before Christ is recorded in Titus 3:3. Paul says, “For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.”

- Before we experienced the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit we were:

“foolish” – this means to be ignorant concerning the things of God.

“disobedient” – speaks of one who is rebellious toward God.

“deceived” – means to be continually led deeper and deeper into sin by Satan.

“slaves to various lusts and passions” – one who is a slave to the desires of the flesh.

“passing our days in malice” – this refers to a lifestyle of evil.