What is a memory? How can we understand, experience, express and live aware of God's presence better?
If a memory is a past present... Then maybe Jesus' presence can be seen as our present past, His memory with us always... but in a present tense, because He is with us still. Not at all meaning to undermine the presence of the Holy Spirit or to minimise Jesus and His authority into a mere memory. However, if it makes it easier and helps us to accept what it means to be aware of His presence, then I think we are allowed to play with the idea; to live with the memory of who we know Him to be, awareness of who we remember Him to be, from past personal stories, past revelations, stories of the Bible, past 'good times'... into today. A present memory.
An example would be, "I may feel like this situation is unfair, but then I remember Jesus' situation was even more unfair but He kept on loving - willingly. So I try to continue to love, and thus the memory of Jesus becomes present in my reality" His memory becomes present tense as we live with this awareness that the Jesus of the Bible days, is the Jesus we try to live out to others.
The Jesus we love and represent is closer than we sometimes think or feel. Our mind and memory has greater power than we realise, to bring into our personal reality God's presence in our every day.
