Communion is something that I started to hold very near and dear to my heart the last part of college. I began going to a church that did communion once a month (the first Sunday of every month to be exact), and I began to really enjoy it. I realized that I felt a very deep connection with what communion actually meant. I could actually visualize the last supper and Jesus telling His disciples in a very prophetic way that His body was going to break for them, and His blood was going to spill for them.
When I take communion, I can’t help but think of everything that Jesus did for me when He came here to this earth. Not only did He tell us about His father in heaven and how to get there, He lived out an example of what we should strive to be like. Yes, I know that Jesus was sinless, and we will never be sinless because we are human. We can still strive to live life in a way that emulates Jesus. And when we falter in our walks that’s where grace comes in. This grace that I’m talking about is grace that covers all sin because God sees all sin as equal. Grace is what we get because Jesus died for us on the cross; Grace that is completely a gift that we don’t have to earn. Ephesians 2:8 “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God”
Jesus broke His body for us; He spilled His blood for us. Romans 5:8 says “But God demonstrates His love for us in this; While we were still sinners Christ died for us. “ So we don’t have to be perfect to be loved by Christ or be a Christian.
I was reminded of how the gospel and communion are connected last night, when my team took communion together. As you can probably imagine, communion looked a little different on the World Race than it does in a church in the states. We were in outdoor kitchen of our home here in Costa Rica. Instead of grape juice/ wine, all we could find was grape flavored Gatorade that we had in mixed matched glasses, the bread was basically a giant crouton, but through the whole thing I still saw Jesus. I still experienced the cross and was reminded of the great sacrifice that He made so that I could have peace, freedom, eternal life, and a Savior.
