THE LORD'S SUPPER

THE LORD’S SUPPER

I enjoyed the thought that we might respond to the desires of the Lord’s heart in asking us to remember Him in His death. I think communion in ^[p. 146] 1 Corinthians is not partaking, but association. The Lord was going away; the night in which He is betrayed He calls His loved ones around Him and says, Eat this bread and drink this cup in remembrance of Me; find it happy and strengthening to your hearts to identify yourselves with Me in My death for you here; get into company with Me, not for sorrow but for life, as “eating” in John 6 indicates; the true heart finding its happiness and strength (food) in being identified on earth with Him in His last terrible service for us here. This is communion with His blood. It is to me a cup of blessing, of untold blessing. In calling Him to remembrance in His death, I place myself in company with Him there, I am engrossed with Him, and while abounding in thanksgiving because of my gain from His death, and the sense of all that He is so before me, I find and feel that no other place in this scene so suits my heart as that which sets me in identification and association with Him at the moment when He is pre-eminently before me.

I enjoyed the meeting or rather the place of meeting, feeling how near we were to the Lord, how enough He is for our hearts, how His presence refuses everything that is unfit for Him, and yet how perfectly happy, lacking nothing, we are there.

I said my desire for each one was that in His presence we might have deeper memories of His death. I feel that as we are to go out of this world in Christ’s death, we ought to be identifying ourselves with it here. I spoke on enjoying His presence individually and collectively - the greatness of it. We should seek it, for by His presence alone can our information be moulded and effective, otherwise the truth has little power, it is like so much ore without a model for it.