Saturday, March 13, 2010
Sat. March 13
SCRIPTURE READING: Mark 14:22-26
KEY VERSE: Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take it; this is my body" (Mark 14:22).
Your Dinner Is Ready
Jesus was often the guest of others. In three meals He hosted, recorded in the Gospels (the feeding of the 5,000, the Last Supper, and His dinner with the pair in Emmaus), He took the bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave it away.

Like the bread He took at these dinners, Jesus was taken or "chosen," to express God's love to us. Peter says, "He was chosen before the creation of the world . . . for your sake" (1 Pet. 1:20). Jesus was chosen and blessed by God. When He rose from the water of baptism, He heard His Father proclaim, "You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased" (Luke 3:22).

Like the bread, He was broken and given up for our salvation. On the Cross, He willingly gave up His earthly life. "He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him" (Isa. 53:5).

The bread and cup remind us of all Christ is and has done for us. Through His sacrifice, God has taken us, blessed and broken us so that we might be given to feed a hungry world.
Janine Metcalf
SING TO THE LORD
Here would I lay aside each earthly load;
Here taste afresh the calm of sin forgiv'n.
"Here, O My Lord, I See Thee" by Horatius Bonar
REACH OUT IN PRAYER
Developing Christian leaders in the Bahamas.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
I am the bread of life (John 6:48).
THROUGH THE BIBLE IN A YEAR
Joshua 7-9
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