Sweet Bread and Wine

What we do here each week is foreign to the carnal mind. How do these Christians partake of the body and blood of Jesus Christ, eating his flesh and blood? It seems morbid, pagan even. Jesus lost disciples when he told them to eat his flesh and drink his blood. And it was even his enemies that figuratively ate him up, crucifying him on the cross.

            But we are to partake of the crucified Jesus, identifying with him there on that cursed cross. To us, a blessed cross, where our sins were nailed with him, granting us forgiveness in the presence of the Father.

            To partake of Jesus’s body and blood, for us, is not morbid, is not offensive to the Father, but rather it is to become one with Christ Jesus, by faith, believing that His death delivered us from death, and that his resurrection life grants us eternal life.

            His death on the cross is not bitter but for us but it is the sweet bread and wine of redemption, the memorial celebration of our dear beloved Savior.