Eating with Understanding

Today we have been considering wisdom in light of our mortality. In this meal, we consider another death. It is true that we will all die. Even our Lord Jesus had to die.

         And just as we must consider that our short life will end in death, so we must consider the long life of death. Jesus died but death could not hold Him. He walked back into life. We, too, will die but for those of us in Christ, death will not be able to hold us, either. We will walk among the land of the living.

         Death is strong but Jesus has broken the power of death through the forgiveness of sins. His Spirit with us reveals in us the power that overcomes death. But we cannot cheat death. We must still pass through.  Death gets paid whether we pay Him with our eternal souls or whether we pay him with the perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

When we try to pay death out of our own account, death is never satisfied and we will not get out of there until we have paid the last cent. But if death is paid in the perfect sinless death of Jesus Christ, then your death debt is canceled and you will live and not die. So, we take hold of this bread and this wine, God’s proof to us that we will not die but live.