The next time we celebrate the Lord’s Supper, let’s ponder deeply the meaning of these simple-yet-profound symbols, the bread and the cup — effective reminders of the ultimate sacrifice: Christ’s forfeiting of His life in exchange for ours.
We are such a contradiction, such a paradox as believers! Like the apostle Paul said of himself (Romans 7), we often do what we know we shouldn’t do — and don’t do what we know we should; and even if we could tame and conform our behavior, there’s our thought-life! These things about us make the grace of God truly amazing!
Spiritually, Satan attacks the heart (and the mind). The heart is the core of our being; the seat of our affections. Satan attacks here in an attempt to distort our view of God. For Christians in particular he attempts to obscure and rob us of the knowledge of who we are in Jesus Christ.