Communion Thoughts

These are communion thoughts that were sent to me this week......

The most hurtful lies I’ve been told go something like this: “I have it all together.”

Because when you tell me that you have it all together, I feel compelled to tell you the same thing.

And, church, hear me say this: “I do not have it all together.”
These lies keep us from saying things that we really need to say. Things like:
“I screamed at my kids today.”
“I hate going to church.”
“My marriage is falling apart.”
“I can’t pay my bills.”
“Some days, I just don’t think I can make it.”
And, yet, the times when I have been shown Christ are when men and women have invited me into their brokenness.
They have opened their hearts and their arms and said “Welcome to my mess.”
And then together we have pushed away literal and metaphorical cobwebs, and stepped over literal and metaphorical junk and we have communed.
It is there that I have been healed.
Today as we come to the table we sit at the feet of a Savior who in fact had it all together, and yet he chose to step into brokenness so that we might be healed.

God, thank you for becoming broken for us and with us. We pray that this table become a place of true community, where there is not only room for the strong, but the weak have a place of honor. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Lord, I confess my weakness and my doubt. I plead “I believe. Help my unbelief.” In your son’s name Amen.