Lent Bible Reading Series - 17th April 2014

Bible Reading – Luke 22:7-20

Give us this day, our daily bread,

The meal was planned, the table laid, with all the best dishes for the Passover meal. Included would be unleavened bread, wine, candlesticks, and the cedar plate containing the bitter herbs, as well as fruit and nuts, and roast lamb. Each element of the meal had a meaning, which the disciples would have understood. Jesus took the bread and said the blessing, ‘Blessed are you Lord our God, ruler of the universe, who brings forth bread from the earth’, thanking God for his continued provision. However this time was very different for, as Jesus broke the bread he said ‘this is my body broken for you’. On this night the full implications of his words could not be denied, Jesus’, own body was to be broken for the sins of the world.

Consider:
• Sharing with friends in a Passover meal

Pray:
• ‘My life must be Christ’s broken bread, My love his outpoured wine.
 A cup o’er filled, a table spread beneath his name and sign.
That other souls refreshed and fed may share his life through mine.’
(SASB 512)