When is the last time you went to the Table of the Lord?  Why did you partake?  Was it to take part in some traditional religious ritual?  Or, did you just sit there and watch, not taking the bread and wine because you were made to feel that you were unworthy while others participated thinking they were worthy when they weren’t?  Actually, nobody’s worthy.  Only Jesus was worthy.  And, when He started the practice that we call communion, He was actually fulfilling a Jewish law concerning Passover.  That’s right the act that GOD had Moses tell the Israel slaves in Egypt to do the night before HE led them out in the Exodus. 

      What Jesus took though, was the traditional Jewish practice of broken bread and wine that was taken in place of the original blood spread around the door facing and roasted lamb they ate in haste.  There was no magic, no hocus-pocus, no hocus corpus mias, or however it’s spelled, that changed the bread and wine to the blood and flesh of Jesus.  That was adapted from a heathen religious practice to baal.  Jesus still had His flesh on His bones and His blood in His veins.  Not being disrespectful, just stating facts to try to help clear up some traditional misconceptions.

      When He held up the bread, blessed it and passed it around, He said this is my body, not literally, figuratively.  We eat the bread to receive the promise of healing that goes all the way back to the roasted lamb when 2 to 3 + million left Egypt and there was not a feeble one in their midst, (Psalm 105).  The wine, He said was his blood, figuratively, that is, was, shed for you that you might receive salvation.

      Imagine Jesus walking forward toward you with His back to the sun.  You see His shadow before you see Him.  The Old Testament is like a fore shadow of things to come.  Of Jesus.    Isaiah 53:5, looking forward said, with His stripes we are healed.  Peter, looking back after the resurrection said, 1Pet. 2: 24, by whose stripes ye were healed.  This is the reason for taking the bread. 

     So, when you take communion, or got to the Table of the Lord, or however you refer to it, leave all the traditional baggage behind and when you take the bread, lift it, personalize it by saying, “With His stripes I was healed”.  When you take the wine, or whatever you use, lift it as say” I am made worthy by the blood of the lamb, thank YOU LORD for YOUR Grace, it Jesus Name.”

      Keep your eyes on the Lord and what He did and what the elements mean and your eyes off of your self or anything else where you can partake worthily, in a worthy manner. 

      GOD be with you and open your eyes to his ways.

                                                                                                                            Harry