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The Lord’s Supper brings us back to the love of Christ revealed at the cross. As we remember His body given and His blood shed, the heart is called to leave distraction, recognize its need, and remain close to Jesus with gratitude.
Devotional
In Luke 22:19-20, Jesus took the bread and the cup before His disciples. He spoke of His body given and His blood shed. Then He said, “this do in remembrance of me.”
The Lord’s Supper does not call us to remember a distant idea. It brings us before Jesus and what He gave for us.
The bread points to His wounded body. The cup points to His blood poured out. At that table, before the cross, Jesus showed His disciples that His love would pass through the giving of His own life.
Remembering the cross helps us look at the heart with greater honesty. Many times, we become distracted, hardened within, and too used to the language of faith. We can begin to treat the sacrifice of Christ as something familiar rather than something that searches us.
The cross confronts pride. It reminds us that we need forgiveness. It also awakens gratitude, because Jesus gave Himself for real people, with real sins, with failures He fully knows.
When the cross returns to the center, faith is no longer appearance. The heart draws near to Jesus with reverence and trust. The Lord’s Supper helps us remember that we have been reached by a love that came at great cost.
Every day, we need to return to that place. The cross keeps us close to Jesus because it reminds us who we are before Him and how deeply we have been loved by Him.
Prayer
Lord Jesus, thank You for Your body given and Your blood shed for us. Guard our hearts from distraction and pride. Help us remain close to You with gratitude and reverence. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Bible reference
19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake [it], and gave unto them, saying, ‹This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.›
20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, ‹This cup› [is] ‹the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.›
