Daily Communion, Day 1
“This do, as often as you [do] it, in remembrance of Me.”
1 Corinthians 11:25
How often then, are we to remember?
The key to seeing the gospel worked out in our lives is to be constant about bringing it up to ourselves. What is the first thing I do when I wake up each day? The last thing before bed? What is the prevailing thought throughout the day? We should start each day, end each day, and live the in-between with Christ’s transformative work on our minds.
But that’s impossible. I cannot live each moment thinking about Christ. I have to work, I have to attend to the necessities of daily life, I have to have some moment to relax.
If I am unable to apply the gospel to each of these areas of life, I do not understand the gospel.
The gospel is not simply 4 books of the new testament, telling the story of the life, death and resurrection of Christ. It is the moment in time, when God did for me what I could not do - that is, He enabled me to live how I see Jesus live in those books… completely in tune with the Father’s will, able and equipped to fulfill His purpose in every aspect, anointed with grace to transform and make new.
The gospel is not a story, it is an event which happened in my life. When the gospel took place in me, I was set free from sin and all things which hold me away from my Father. I was set firmly into the position of sonship - I am Jesus’ younger brother. He is “…the firstborn among many brethren.”(Romans 8:29). We belong to the same family, we share the same name, we have the same familial traits.
Through the gospel, I have been positioned to live just like Jesus, that is, completely out of my relationship with the Father. (I picture living out of a suitcase. Everywhere you go, you take it with you. Everything you have is stored in it, and gets pulled from it when you use it. Everything finds its way back to it.) Everything is brought back to that point and examined.
Today, we are to bring everything back to the point of the gospel and examine it in the light of that work, HIS finished work in us, “…bringing every thought into captivity…” and apply the truth of this gospel event in me. “I am a new creation…”.
It is a habit we can form. I know it is possible because I can do it with other thoughts. The overwhelming majority of the enemy’s distractions in my life aren’t the sinful thoughts but the “necessary things”. Today is a busy day and all I think about, from the moment I wake up to the moment I lay back down - all the time in between, I’m thinking about all the things I have to do.
“This do… in remembrance of Me.” When I determine to create this daily habit, I find myself not only thinking about Him, but telling others about what He’s done for me.
