Till He Comes

Till He Comes

For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you do show the Lord’s death till He come.

I Corinthians 11:26

We would extend our contemplation upon the Lord’s Supper just a bit farther.  Paul declared that as long as we continue to observe the Communion feast we, ‘proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.’  This points us toward a future blessed and much anticipated event.  When Christ instituted the Communion feast, it was with an eye toward the cross.  For us, who participate in it today, the cross is an event upon which we look in retrospect.  Because of the witness of the Evangelists, we know that after the cross came the grave; after the grave came the resurrection; after the resurrection came His ascension.  After His ascension, we have had more than two thousand years of His intercession.  During those two millennia, all His believing people have remembered His broken Body and His shed Blood in His Own Divinely appointed way.  The end is not yet.  According to His Own promise, Christ is coming again.  He will come in power and great glory.  He will come no longer with a broken body, but as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.  ‘Every eye shall see Him,’ and ‘He shall reign forever and ever.’  Until that day and hour, we who believe shall remember His broken Body and shed Blood.  ‘Even so come, Lord Jesus.’

Our Gracious Master and our God,
we rejoice at the promise of Your return.
We praise You that the faith will indeed be sight,
and until that day, we will remember You.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning