Until He Comes

The Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”  For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.         1 Corinthians 11:24-26

This was the passage of scripture My Pastor Wade used last Sunday as we celebrated communion or The Lord’s Supper. I say celebrated because this time we actually celebrated at this breaking of bread ordinance of the church.

Other times we were instructed to focus on His death and what it means to Christians. And there is nothing wrong with that. It brings me to humble tears to remember that Jesus would do this for me so that I can have a relationship eternally with God.

But My Pastor Wade had us focus on the end of verse 26. “Until He comes” This is victory. This is the promise of the ultimate victory over sin in the world. I have victory over sin now but, let’s face it; we live in a broken world. No matter how we go through life there will be disappointments, pain, tragic accidents, wars and unease throughout the world, death, persecution, and on and on with things that challenge our victorious stance.

Someday Jesus will settle it for good. Until then we will continue to remember how He gave us forgiveness and victory over personal sin by His death, burial, and resurrection. Then one Day He will come to relieve this world of forces that physically and emotionally tear us apart. This will be the final victory. “Until He comes, until He comes, until He comes”

Since Sunday I have been acutely aware of prayer request people have given to me. And I have prayed with a renewed victory. Yes, we will have the need to seek and ask our Christians friends to pray vigilantly for the reminders of our broken world and how it heartbreakingly affects us. We will seek God’s merciful hand. We will seek His comfort and peace. We will seek His protection. We will seek His healing. We will come with broken hearts. We will ask, “Why me? Why my family?”  We will urgently make our request. The renewed victory is …..until He comes.

 No More Night  Words & music by Walt Harrah

The timeless theme, Earth and Heaven will pass away. 
It's not a dream; God will make all things new that day. 
Gone is the curse from which I stumbled and fell.
Evil is banished to eternal hell.

No more night. No more pain.
No more tears. Never crying again. 
And praises to the great "I AM." 
We will live in the light of the risen Lamb.

Until He Comes (It’s my new battle cry.)