Good
day! I’m Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word:
What
is my attitude toward participation in the Lord’s Supper? Do I look forward to
it, or just dutifully go through the motions. I was forced to examine myself on
that issue today as I was reading in the first chapter of Joel.
Joel
speaks of a plague of locusts so bad that the entire land was stripped bare. It
was so bad that the there was no wine or grain for offerings! Joe 1:9 The
grain offering and the drink offering Have been cut off from the house of the
LORD; The priests mourn, who minister to the LORD.
Imagine
a land so devastated by disaster that there would be no wine or bread available
for the Lord’s Supper! Would you miss it? Would you mourn with the priests of
Joel’s day?
How
would it affect your attitude toward participation in the Lord’s Supper. I don’t
care how your particular church “does
communion,” but one thing I do know, it ought not be a “ho-hum” event for the
Christian.
The
Body and Blood of Christ given for you for the forgiveness of your sins! Let
that truth sink in as the Lord gracefully comes to you every single time at the
table with that assurance!
Participation
in this expression of God’s love for you is essential in your Christian walk. Jesus
put in this way in Joh 6:53-56, “Then Jesus said to them, "Most
assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink
His blood, you have no life in you. 54 "Whoever eats My flesh and drinks
My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55
"For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. 56 "He
who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.
It's
not that the Lord’s Supper is necessary for salvation, but your participation
is a sign of the spiritual life deposited in you at your baptism, and a
reminder that Jesus is abiding in you.
I don’t
know about you but that fact alone makes me not just want to come to table....
I'd just as soon run if I could!
I’m
Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word
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