Jesus sent His disciples to go and prepare the Passover but they asked Him where they were to prepare it.
We can learn a lesson here that whenever the Lord tells you to do something, ask Him where He wants you to do it and how He wants you to do it and He'll show it to you.
After preparation, He sat together with His disciples to and said He earnestly desired to eat with them before He suffered.
We see that Jesus longs to fellowship with His disciples. He being the Son of God desired fellowship with His disciples who were weaker than Him; what about you and me; how much more do we need fellowship with other like-minded brothers and sisters who are true disciples of Jesus.
He gave the disciples the cup to share among themselves. He took the bread, gave thanks and broke it. He gave saying it is His body that was given to for them. They were to continue doing it in remembrance of Him.
The (bread)body has to be broken first before being given to the disciples; in the same way, God has to break us before making us a blessing to others. We are to always remember how Jesus gave Himself up for us. Not only in taking the holy communion, but it is something we need to think of constantly.
Heb 12:3 says that if keep on thinking about how Jesus suffered from wicked men, and all He underwent for us , we will be willing to undergo everything for Him without getting discouraged or giving up. Here lies the secret of how to overcome everything we face in our pilgrim journey. Have you seen it.
We can thus conclude that when you get discouraged and want to give up, at that moment you are not thinking about all that Jesus suffered. Get your mind to thinking about Christ's suffering and you'll get encouragement
The blood He shed was for the new covenant. The life is in the blood. Therefore in the new covenant, we don't live in our strength to try to please God but rather, it is allowing the life of Jesus to flow through us giving us His nature so that we can live as He lived. Moment by moment we partake of His nature and we increasingly become like Him. In this new Covenant is not do's and don'ts as in the ten commandments, but it is God doing it for us... He says I will put the law in their minds and write them in their hearts. Heb 8:10
I will sprinkle clean water....I will cleanse them...I will give you a new heart and new spirit... I will remove your stony heart...I will put My Spirit...I will cause you to walk in my ways...
Ezek 36:25-31
We see there are not do this and don't do this but it's all God doing in us and changing us from within by impacting in us the nature of Christ so that we will hate not just avoid what God hates and love not just doing for the sake the things that God loves. We must continually partake of Christ nature to be increasingly become more like Christ.
To partake Christ nature....2Pet 1:4
by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
The Holy Spirit also shows us the glory of Christ in the scriptures and then transforms us into the same image from one degree of glory to higher degrees of Glory. 2Cor 3:18.
Is your Christianity something that comes from your inside or is it a whitewash? Has God been transforming from the inside to partake of the nature of Christ? Do you hate evil or do you avoid it? Do you love righteousness or do you do righteousness?
Our Lord hated iniquity and loved righteousness and that is why God anointed Him with the oil of gladness. Heb 1:9
It is to the degree that we hate sin and love righteousness that we experience the joy of the Lord in our lives. If we are increasingly becoming like Christ, our joy and peace must also increase in the same degree.
What is your experience in your inner life? Your thoughts, your attitudes and motives?
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@Blessed Mshindi Mambo
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