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Breaking Bread: The Hardship
On the night he was betrayed, Jesus took bread and when he had given thanks, he broke it. And he said, "Take, eat, this my body, which is given for you."
After the eating of the bread and drinking of the cup in solemn communion with the lamb the disciples sang a hymn. Then they left for the Mount of Olives. This was the trial and hardship that came after the sweet communion. They were still with Jesus. Only a stone's throw away was the Lamb of God.
He said to them, "Pray that you may not enter into temptation." He calls out to us after this communion, after this fellowship with the Father, "Pray that you may not enter into temptation." Yet time and time again we fail to pray.
As you eat this bread and drink this cup remember the hardship and trial that will soon come. Remember the temptation that Jesus warned His disciples about. And Pray! Pray that you too may not enter into temptation but be delivered from the evil one, cursed be he.
