Daily devotion – a communion to remember
Next Sunday we celebrate communion together – 1 Cor 11: 23 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; 24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken[fn] for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” 25 In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.
The broken bread reminds us of Christ’s body given for us as we look back. The cup reminds us of Christ’s shed blood.
It is remarkable that Jesus wants us to remember His death. Most of us try to forget how those we love died, but Jesus wants us to remember how He died. Why?
Because everything we have as a Christian, centres in His death.
We must remember that Christ died, because this is part of the Gospel message: “Christ died…and was buried.”
It is not the life of our Lord, or His teachings that will save sinners – but His death. Therefore, we also remember WHY He died: “Christ died for our sins; He was our substitute – Isaiah 53:6, paying the debt that we could not pay.
We should also remember HOW He died: willingly, meekly, showing forth His love for us – Rom 5:8
Communion is one of the sacraments of the Church that the Bible teaches us to celebrate – next Sunday let us remember Christ’s death and the wonder that it brought with our salvation from sin!