One Last Supper

When the time came, Jesus and the apostles sat down together at the table. Jesus said,“I have been very eager to eat this Passover meal with you before my suffering begins."

If you knew that today was your last day, how would you live it?  Who would you spend your time with?  Talk with?  What messages would you make sure you passed on?  We’ve all heard the old adage, “Live today as if it were your last.”  That is a nice old saying, but I don’t know how truly applicable it is.  That would create a huge amount of stress in my life.  If I lived each day like it was my last I would lose the basic happiness that each day can bring.

Who would you want to eat your last meal with?  What would you want to tell the people there?  How would you want the meal to be?  The atmosphere of the room?  What effect would having a betrayer there, mocking this dinner?  How would feel?  Jesus says in verse 15 that he desired with desire to have this meal with them.  That is a strong desire to not just desire, but desire to desire.  This meal was the placing of the Passover Seder in its fulfilled role.  No longer would this meal be forward looking to the not yet fulfilled, but it would become a the announcement of the Lord’s death (1 Corinthians 11:26) fulling the promise of Passover.

Every time we share the Lord’s Supper we remember this final meal.  We announce the Lord’s death.  The wafer is the Lord’s body broken for us.  The juice is the Lord’s blood spilled for us.  As the Lord’s physical body was broken for us, the bread is broken when we eat, and we as His body are to be broken for the world.  As the Lord poured out his blood for us, the juice is poured out for us to partake, and we as His body are to be poured out for the world.

  1. How would you eat your final meal?
  2. How do you celebrate communion?
  3. Are you broken and poured out for the world?


--Zine Smith

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