Remembering Brokenness – Anticipating Glory

This Communion study explores the application of Jesus’ injunction to Remember Him when we partake of the bread and cup. Certainly, Jesus is a worthy “end point” of the remembering exercise. The believer does well to focus exclusively on the great acts of redemption that Jesus accomplished. But the believer does better when the remembering exercise includes the element of personal application.

As Jesus said during the night in which He was betrayed: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.” (John 13:16) “Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you.” (John 15:20)

The steps that Jesus took become footprints for the feet of every Christian to follow. The servant of the Saviour will suffer too. The sheep will not escape the experience of the Lamb. Remember this when you partake of the symbols of Jesus’ broken body and poured out blood, but always do so in the full light of Christ’s Two-Fold State. If you do, you will remember brokenness and anticipate glory.