The Ninth Gift of Christmas - You Prepare A Feast For Me

 The Ninth Gift of Christmas - You Prepare A Feast For Me

 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.” Matthew 5:6 NKJV

With the lockdowns imposed to control the coronavirus pandemic, it was not possible to celebrate Christmas with parties and dinners. But it has led many churches to celebrate Holy Communion or the Last Supper every Sunday when church services were allowed to resume. Before the pandemic, most churches had only done so once a month. 

COVID 19 is a blessing if it turns our lives right side up and redirects our gluttony into a hunger and thirst for the Living Bread and Living Water of Christ. Jesus had transformed the Passover meal which commemorated the deliverance of the Jews from their slavery in Egypt into the Holy Communion as a remembrance of His death on the cross to deliver us from slavery to sin.

Holy Communion is God’s means of grace for us to look into our hearts to confess our sinful desires and then to look outwards to others with mercy and grace and upwards to God to fill our hearts with agape love by the Holy Spirit. It is a blessing when the Holy Communion is no longer a superstitious ritual but a shared experience of celebrating Christ’s victory over sin and death - to embody us to be the broken body and poured out wine of Christ to redeem the world from sin and evil.