The Lord’s Supper · 1 day
Preparing for Communion
A day to examine your heart, be reconciled, and give thanks.
For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread. When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.” In the same way he also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
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A devotional for the eve of the Lord’s Supper: self-examination, reconciliation, and gratitude.
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Day 1 · Before you come to the table
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
Context
In Corinth, the Lord’s Supper took place within a shared community meal, and those who had more ate first, leaving the poor hungry. Paul corrects the church by recalling what he received from the Lord himself: on the night he was betrayed, Jesus took the bread and the cup as a sign of his body and of the new covenant in his blood. In context, eating “in an unworthy manner” had to do with despising one’s brother or sister and treating the table as something ordinary.
Tomorrow, or at your church’s next Communion service, you will receive the bread and the cup. It is a simple gesture: a piece of bread, a little of the fruit of the vine. But behind it is the night when Jesus, knowing he would be betrayed, sat at the table with his friends, broke the bread, and said: This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me.
The Supper is, above all, remembrance. We are not remembering a distant hero, but someone who gave his life for us. Paul says that as often as we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. The table looks back, to the cross, and forward, to Christ’s return.
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