Who is God? All hail the power... (part 12)

The whole basis of the Lord’s Supper, the whole reason for being, is the remembrance of Who Christ was. Not just the sacrifice, although He was the sacrificial Lamb, but also His covenant that according to Galatians 3:15, 17 that was new, a spiritual covenant, the one that would transcend the fleshly bounds. In making this covenant, He knew Judas would betray Him, people would lie against Him, beat Him, deny Him, especially Peter, and then leave Him, especially His own people except for John who stayed with Him until the last. And He knew that God had something for Him, and He never forgot that Father, even though He prayed that it would be taken from Him. The will of the Father was foremost in mind, and that is what Jesus wants me to remember. That the idea behind sharing a meal with Him is the fulfillment of a promise that came down from Genesis 3, all through the time of Moses and David and Solomon and the division of the Kingdom of Israel and the destruction of the first Temple and rebuilding of the Temple until the days of Christ and the fulfillment that Judah itself was going to be destroyed. It is the fulfillment of the promise of the power of God. God’s power, as spoken of in Romans 1:16-17 can overcome the fact that I do mean and malicious things, because God can change me such that I don’t do those things anymore. God’s power can change the way I think, because His power guided by His will raised a man from the dead three days after He was buried. Luke 22:3-31 gives a good account of the Lord’s Supper, as does John chapters 13 through 17. It is a celebration of Christ being resurrected. Jesus Christ is risen today, I remember singing, Halleluiah. Halleluiah, Christ is risen. And so the cross becomes at once sorrowful and yet exciting. I am excited Christ went to the cross for me because it means He loves me so much that He would die for me. I am saddened at His suffering because of my sins, but I am amazed and overjoyed that He would sacrifice all that He had just that I might be with Him as part of His bride, when He is ready to present me to His Father. And I pray that when He is ready to present me, that I am ready. But that is why He came to earth too, isn’t it?