When the smell of baking bread fills my home it changes
me. I hunger for it even if I am not
hungry. The right wine fills me with joy
even on the first glass. We remember
today that Jesus sits at supper with his closest friends. He prays for them. He explains what is to happen.
His friends are about to abandon him. One will hand him over to those who will kill
him. Peter will deny
In the midst of assuring his friends that they will survive
his death he goes a step further. He
sets aside the bread and wine as things he will give up until he can again dine
with his friends in the redeemed world. Whilst
facing the abandonment, the beatings, and the cross he still is giving up
things for us. He is still focused on
the day when he shares these things with me.
He will weep over the world whilst his followers sleep. He will go to prayer and be arrested. He will go willingly and his tormentors will
think they power over him. He will give
up his life and they will think they have killed him. He will rise.
In this moment, however, he is looking past all of that to a day when we
all gather to celebrate that final atonement for our sin; for my sin.
Bread and wine mean so much in life. I think we miss out when we focus on only the
washing of the feet and the drama of the last supper. I need to see that Christ was about to deny
what he enjoyed so that he could take up his cross. Christ has denied himself these things until
he shares them with me. What do I
indulge in that can wait until things are redeemed? What do I need to die to in order to be more
like Christ?
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer
who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home
owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store."
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