Simply Christ

“Do this to remember me.” The words of Jesus during the last supper.

Our aim here at SimplyChrist in giving you a verse each week to think about, pray, and seek to share is to help you walk with Christ during your day. It’s easy to go to church, read your Bible, and enjoy uplifting Christian songs during the day but it’s a lot harder to bring Jesus and His power, promises and purposes into all the things that take place during the week.

Our “Verse-A-Week” focus seeks to help with that. If you’re thinking about a certain aspect of Jesus’ greatness, and if you’re praying that verse back to him when you’re upset or concerned about something, it will be a lot easier for you to actually bring Christ and his promises and purposes into things in faith. So our verse for this the 19th week of the year comes from the Gospels where Jesus is instructing His followers to eat some bread and to drink some wine in remembrance of Him.

Today we call this communion or we call it the Lord’s Supper and I was blessed to be able to do this very thing yesterday with some fellow Christians at a church in Sauk Village, Il. We had a wonderful time reminding ourselves of what Jesus had done for us when he died that horrible death on the cross. Out of that death came forgiveness, hope, and a new way of living, one with love at its center.

Any notions I might have about changing myself, others or the world for the better involving my own wisdom, strength, and determination have to be put aside. They may be able to invent some pretty cool things but they are unable to change the heart and fill it with what it needs to truly live. Only Jesus can do that and he does it when we “eat” and “drink” in his sacrifice, his love, his forgiveness, and his power into our hearts and minds in faith.

Jesus’ use of bread and wine for this show that we need to take in Jesus’ love every day for without Him we’ll surely fall back into old selfish and sinful ways of getting through our day. So this week I’ll be thinking about, praying, and seeking to share with others the importance of remembering how great Jesus is and how he wants to change my life by showing me a new way of living involving His love and purposes.

Blessings – Pastor Pete