Bread

Bread

  

 This unleavened bread

may cost you next to nothing.

But don’t underestimate its value!

Bread is one of the cheapest things

you can buy in the grocery store.

The other day Sandy and I were at a park

and people were tossing bread to the geese.

Bread is an inexpensive way

to feed the birds.

Bread is so common

you can find it in every home.

A family that has very little to spend

on food will have bread.

Sandy and I have been taking communion

every night for the last 5½ years.

The significance of the Lord’s Supper is important;

and each night I fear that our regularly visiting

His table will become common place.

Each night I ask God to give me something fresh

as we sit next to the Eucharist elements.

The other night as I took the unleavened bread

I thought about Christ’s Body.

There is nothing more valuable

to the believer than the Body of Christ.

Without His Body

we would not have

the teachings of the Gospels.

Without His Body

our sins would have never

been washed away at the cross.

As I held the bread that night,

I struggled with the thought that Jesus

used inexpensive bread

to represent the Most Valuable.

Jesus made it possible for

everyone to partake of Him.

All you and I need is a little bread

and a little fruit of the vine and

we can enter into a Holy moment.

There is something about

putting that bread

 in your mouth and

in seconds it starts

to be digested and

becomes a part of you.

Luke 22:19 NIV    Jesus said,

“Do this in remembrance of Me.”  

Remember when you

break the bread

it cost Him everything

even though the bread

costs you nothing.

Scripture Reading

Matthew 26:26-30 NIV

26 While they were eating,

Jesus took bread,

gave thanks and broke it,

and gave it to his disciples, saying,

"Take and eat; this is my body." 

27 Then he took the cup,

gave thanks

and offered it to them, saying,

"Drink from it, all of you.

28 This is my blood of the covenant,

which is poured out for many

for the forgiveness of sins.

29 I tell you,

I will not drink of this fruit of the vine

from now on until that day

when I drink it anew with you

in my Father's kingdom." 

30 When they had sung a hymn,
they went out to the Mount of Olives.