THE ANTIDOTE TO “SAD”-NESS
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Communion provides a time each Lord’s Day to restore order to our souls. We look forward to that day when “the old order of things has passed away” (Revelation 21:4).
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Communion provides a time each Lord’s Day to restore order to our souls. We look forward to that day when “the old order of things has passed away” (Revelation 21:4).
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At Communion we remember that it was Jesus’ “outstretched arms” on the cross that did indeed demonstrate God’s power to free us from the slavery of sin.
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Every time we observe Communion, we remember and give thanks that Jesus’ mission has indeed reached its fulfillment and that each of us was a part of that mission.
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Communion provides us with a time to give thanks that Jesus came and that we have chosen to make his purpose for coming to this world our purpose for living in this world and preparing for the next.
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From the first day of the year to the last, from the beginning to the end, Jesus is “the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End” (Revelation 22:13).
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Here at the Communion table, we gather as wanderers who have come home and are part of God’s forever family: his church.
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The focal point during this sacred time of remembrance is the death of our Lord on the cross. As we meet around his table we are in essence commemorating two deaths: Jesus dying for our sins and we, as believers, dying to our sins.
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Praise God for the assurance that because of the Lord’s sacrifice we are cleansed and forgiven of every trespass. Father, forgive us for we know not what we do.
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Through the body and blood of Jesus of Nazareth, our sins are removed. They are cleansed. They are forgotten.