![]() And so that is what we celebrate and remember with the bread. And in the end, His salvation will give us life, eternal life. The salvation He brings us satisfies our deepest hungers. His broken body, his death for our sins, is like our food. It is my death on the cross that will give you life, eternal life.Īnd so in communion we have a ceremony where we eat the bread and remember Christ’s death. He says, “My flesh is true food” (John 6:55). As He says, “The bread which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh” (John 6:51). Jesus also tells us how He gives life to the world: through His death on the cross, through His broken body. ![]() Jesus is telling us that He came to be the true bread, the bread that gives true life, eternal life: Eat this bread-that is, believe in me-and you will live. This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die” (John 6:48-50). Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. The Bible portrays the things of God as satisfying our longings, just as food and drink satisfy our hunger and thirst: “For has satisfied the thirsty soul, And the hungry soul He has filled with what is good” (Psalm 107: 9) “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied” (Matthew 5:6).Īnd of course, the Bible portrays the things of God as giving us life, just as food and drink do. The Bible portrays the things of God as pleasurable, like food and drink: “Taste and see that the Lord is good” (Psalm 34:8) “The judgments of the Lord…are sweeter also than honey” (Psalm 19:9-10). No wonder, then, that the Bible often speaks of the larger spiritual realities with metaphors of eating and drinking. We experience pleasure, we achieve satisfaction, and we receive life. Every day, when we eat and drink, it is like we enact a little parable. ![]() Our physical existence is sustained for a while longer. Our hunger and thirst diminish and disappear. And then, as we continue to eat and drink, we feel the satisfaction of our need. We respond to the taste of what we are eating and drinking. When we start eating and drinking, we usually experience pleasure. And so the experience of eating and drinking is a very big deal. The longer we go without drinking, the thirstier we get. The longer we go without eating, the hungrier we get. Our bodies are designed to tell us that we need food, we need drink. If we do not eat-if we do not drink-we will die. The physical act of eating and drinking is very much like the spiritual realities it represents.įood and drink-hunger and thirst-are incredibly powerful and important parts of human experience. In the Lord’s Supper, it is as if we are enacting a physical metaphor. This article is from a talk given to Reformation Fellowship Church on Easter Sunday, April 5, 2015.Ĭommunion is a ceremony based around food and drink. Career DevelopmentLiberal Arts: Education for All Walks of Life.Mission & Philosophy of Education Statement.
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