Giving honor and thanksgiving to our courageous men and women who have served in the United States Armed Forces and as first responders. We especially recognize all of our brave personnel who gave their life protecting our freedom and well-being. We salute you and your families.
It is important and right to remember our loved ones and their contribution to our great nation. God says in Ecclesiastes 3:1-8:
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.”
Christians, should also honor and worship the work and sacrifice that Jesus completed. When He lovingly died on the cross for our sins and redeemed us back to our Living God Jesus paid the ultimate price to give us freedom from the curse of the law.
First Corinthians 11:23-34 says, Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper prior to His crucifixion. This Passover meal was celebrated by Jesus and His disciples in declaration of the work He was about to complete for you and me. This meal called Holy Communion should be practiced continually to acknowledge our deliverance from the power of Satan.
Holy Communion is a blood covenant meal in which we proclaim by faith all that Jesus accomplished. We are celebrating and remembering the better blood covenant (Hebrews 8:6-13) that we have through Him.
Partaking in Holy Communion, we are saying that we remember and honor Jesus’ work of salvation. That His life given was not in vain, but is precious and alive in us forevermore.
Further, the Holy Communion elements, the bread and wine, are not only symbols of the suffering and blood shed by Jesus, but the eternal life and power that He gave us through His completed work.
The cup of wine is symbolic for the sharing of life because the blood is where the life of the flesh is found and to drink one another’s blood is the sharing of one another’s life. The eating of the bread is symbolic for the flesh and to eat the bread is an invitation to the covenant partners to take the greater one’s strength and essence. All that I Am; I Am yours.
Christians are empowered with the same life, authority, and dominion as that of Jesus (John 6:55-58). We are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people (First Peter 2:9). We are more than conquerors (Romans 8:37). And, whatever we do shall prosper (Psalm 1:3). Amen!