Broken for me
I was sitting closest to the aisle and it was the first Sunday of the month, so it was time for communion. The elder passed me the bread and looked straight into my eyes and said, “The body of Christ, broken for you”.
People tend to focus on how large their ministry is and how many facebook friends they have and numbers and groups. Sometimes it feels like your social security number, body fat percentage and amount in your savings account is more important than your name. We often say that it is a small world, but there are a lot of invisible faces in the crowd and it is a big world too.
I’m glad that I was sitting on the aisle. It was a personal reminder that Jesus didn’t just come into the world to save the world, but He also came into the world to save me. It’s not John 3:16, but I think it sums up the message of the gospel pretty well:
The body of Christ. Broken. For me.
http://www.andrew-peterson.com/media/Flesh_and_Blood1.pdf
Category: Musings
Because we’re going through our lives, and we’re trying as hard as we can, and things just seem to always blow up in our faces, and we keep going, ‘God, God, why?’ We don’t know what he’s doing. So just let him do it. If you really believe he’s good, then let him do it. People always say, ‘I don’t know where the Lord is leading me.’ I always say, it don’t really make a whole lot of difference. The important thing is to be where he has led you to already. If he has led you into a marriage, then be faithful there. If he has led you into being single, then be faithful there. If he has blessed you with many material goods, then be a good steward of those goods. And if he has blessed you by allowing you to imitate his life of poverty, then imitate it with great joy.