Tonight we get to see the initiation of one of the essential elements of our worship, the Lord’s Supper, or communion. On the night of Jesus’ arrest, after He washed the disciple’s feet, announced that one of them would betray Him, commanded them to love one another and as He finished eating the Passover meal with them He established a new meal, not to take the place of Passover but to fulfill it. When Jesus said “I did not come to destroy the Law but to fulfill it” He was not merely speaking of the 10 Commandments, He was speaking of everything spoken by God and established for men from the time that sin crept in until the moment of His death and resurrection. Jesus fulfilled the Law, the prophets and even the Passover; this means that none of those things are abolished but that they are all complete in Jesus, they are no longer our effort to please God they are now the reality that in Christ God is pleased and we are atoned, redeemed, loved and adopted. The Passover meal was always a meal that reminded Israel of how God had delivered them from slavery and protected them from death but it was also, always a promise that God would provide for them salvation through the Messiah. The Lord’s Supper is also dual in its purpose, it reminds us of Jesus’ suffering and death on our behalf and it points to His return to usher in His eternal kingdom. If all we do is remember we miss the promise of provision; much of Israel did just that when Jesus came to fulfill the Law and pay for their sins, they simply ate to remember and so they were unprepared for the promise. I pray that we will not follow that same pattern, that we will do more than eat and drink to remember, that we will eat and drink to also prepare and declare that the One who has come is coming again; my prayer is that we will partake of the Lord’s Supper to participate in the Lord’s purpose, that we would do more than eat a meal, that we would let the meal lead us to follow ever more closely the One who has provided and prepared it for us.