Communion

As we took communion last Wednesday in chapel, I tried to reflect on what I’ve been learning about the bread and wine and how we are taking Christ in us, engaging in a “sacred energy exchange” and should now ensure his life goes on by living for him, and I knew that I should leave that time truly loving people as Christ would, since that would be the biggest consequence of him in my life. Man it’s hard, though.

As I looked around, however, I noticed that everyone in the circle was taking communion (obviously) and therefore everyone was partaking of Christ’s body and should therefore live for him and love like him. I realize that probably no one else in the chapel was thinking about communion quite like I was, and probably most of them were going through the motions rather mindlessly, but I thought of how powerful communion has the potential to be.

If everyone who took communion together had the expectation that they were partaking of Christ’s body to allow him to live in them in order to live for him and act just like him, then what love should flow in the group! It would be so much easier to love one another if everyone was conscious of loving like Christ. If I think of the power I receive when I take communion multiplied by everyone in the circle, because the same Christ is living in each of us, it’s incredible. Maybe that’s a little bit closer to what Jesus wanted when he broke the bread in the upper room.

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