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Breaking Bread: Not My Own
As you come to this table today, you don't bring your own bread. This is not a potluck. The bread you eat is provided for you. Your cooking skills don't amount to much when compared with God's provision. This bread and wine is God's provision. Trust in it.
We would not presume to eat of our own bread when His bread is delivered to us. Neither would we rob others of the opportunity to share in fellowship with us by bringing our own provision. No, we must partake of the community bread and cup.
It is in this practice of partaking the bread and wine together that we are able to recognize that on the night Jesus was betrayed His disciples drank the same cup that He drank but were not able to drink of the cup that the Father had willed.
But do not lose sight of the prize. For one day you too will be called upon to drink of that cup that the Father called Jesus to and even now Jesus himself is calling you to.
Take heart though, Jesus knowing of your fraility does not pass you by in rejection but instead says, "Take, eat, this is my Body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
We will be having a potluck soon amongst my small group and a few others. The point, although most do not know it yet, is to teach about breaking of bread, together. We are going to use biblical examples of breaking bread together.
So often we think of communion as the only time we say "this do in remembrance of me" when we should be doing it in rememberance of God, ALWAYS.
Great post.
Posted by: Carl Holmes | March 5, 2006 11:26 AM