Devotion:
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Read 1 Corinthians 11:23-26.
“This is my body (and blood), given for you.” Jesus Christ gave the ultimate sacrifice to show you and me and everybody else the depth of God’s love for all of us. His whole life was “a living sacrifice” that showed us what it means to live as his people. And in the end, he told us that he wanted to be remembered by this meal. In Communion, we meet Jesus again and are reminded that his way is the way of sacrificial love. Every time we receive the bread and cup, we get to experience his presence again. We experience the Spirit of Christ with us and are reminded that this same Spirit goes with us back out into the world. We also get the tangible experience of taking the bread and juice into our body, a physical reminder that this is what sacrificial love looks like.
So, anytime you receive this meal, let it be more than just remembering what Jesus did a long time ago on behalf of you and the whole world. Let it be a time to be with Jesus right then. Seek his presence in that moment and renew your commitment to seek his presence out there in the real world, where sacrificial love is still so desperately needed.
Personal Worship Option:
Two verses from Isaac Watts hymn “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” are most fitting for this focus today:
Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God; all the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
Were the whole realm of nature mine, that were an offering far too small; love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.
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