The
people of Israel celebrated Passover and ate
the bread and the tasted of the Lamb.
But brothers and sisters. 1
Peter 1:18–19 , “you were ransomed from the futile ways
inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or
gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb
without blemish or spot.”
BREAD
MEDITATION: I am Bread from Heaven
Can
you imagine? Every day when God’s Old Testament people were in the wilderness,
they had to gather their food from the
ground? But Jesus says in John
6:51 , “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If
anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give
for the life of the world is my flesh.”
Jesus
said again in this passage – eat my flesh and you will have eternal life. What does that mean, “Eat my flesh.” It means
to believe by faith that Christ in
His body substituted Himself for you. The Almighty God of Heaven, the Second Person of the Trinity has offered
Himself up and taken the blows of the lowest hell for you. Receive Him by faith.
CUP
MEDITATION: I am the Way
The
Old Testament way of doing things was very bloody. God commanded Moses to set up the Tabernacle
where, in order to reach God’s presence you had to offer a lamb or a bull or a
goat or a dove. Have you read the book of Leviticus? It’s a bloody book!
The
way to have life in the Old Testament was through the blood. You had to sprinkle everything with
blood. Moses sprinkled the people with
blood.
Today
we don’t come to God with the blood of animals.
We say with John the Baptist: “Behold the Lamb of God which taketh
away the sin of the world.” (Jn. 1:29).
The
way to God’s presence in the Tabernacle was through blood. But
that was just a picture. The reality today is that Jesus is “the
Way, the Truth, and the Life – no one
comes to the Father – to God’s presence except through Him.” (Jn. 14:6)
If
you come to God you must come through the Beloved One. All in
Christ are “accepted in the Beloved.” Let us celebrate today that we are no less
accepted today than the day when God says to each one of you: “Well done
good and faithful servant, enter into your rest.”