As we participated in the Lord's supper this Lord's Day, my pastor taught us that we need to look out of ourselves to the Cross, and to the broken body of our Savior as we observe His sacrament, and not to our inner selves.
I have such a habit of trying to get all my latest sins confessed up before I take and eat. But even if I did have the wisdom and the mind to note them all, which I don't, it would still be the wrong reason for taking the bread and wine. (And confession is certainly a good thing. Amen.)
But what is the purpose of celebrating and taking part in this sacrament?
Isn't it that we are coming as His saints, and children, to the table of mercy and grace to remember the Savior's death, which blotted out all our sins. Every one of my sins is gone, as far as the East is from the West, it is gone, and won't be remembered, and is washed and paid for in the blood of Christ; the precious blood of our Redeemer, Jesus Christ.
What joy we can experience as we come and eat the bread to commemorate His perfect broken body, and drink the wine that is a symbol of His precious blood, which was pure and undefiled.
What a Savior and a God we do serve and adore.
"Are you walking daily by the Savior’s side?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Do you rest each moment in the Crucified?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?"
3 comments:
A neglected aspect of the Lord's Supper is hope. Jesus said he would not drink of the cup until the arrival of the kingdom. Consequently, the Supper does not only look backward, but forward to the consummation of all things in Christ.
"Jesus said he would not drink of the cup until the arrival of the kingdom ...the consummation of all things in Christ."
Amen. Excellent point.
Thank you Jonathan for the encouragement.
Thanks don. I needed to meditate on that tonight.
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