Remembering Why We Go
At the Lord’s Supper, Jesus took bread and the cup and directed His disciples towards the sacrifice He was about to make. Communion calls us to look within, look back, and look ahead.
We look within and allow God to search our hearts. We look back and remember the cross, the blood, and the mercy that saved us. We look ahead to the return of Jesus and the eternal hope set before us.
Calvary also reveals the consuming passion of Jesus. His love for lost humanity was not casual or convenient. It carried Him through rejection, suffering, Gethsemane, and the cross. Isaiah pictured the Lord as being “clad with zeal as a cloke” (Isaiah 59:17). Jesus was wrapped in divine passion for the Father’s will and for the souls He came to seek and save.
Our world encourages us to build life around ourselves: our comfort, recognition, preferences, image, and success. The gospel calls us to something greater. Jesus said that anyone who would follow Him must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow (Matthew 16:24). We discover true purpose when we give ourselves to a cause larger than personal ambition.
David arrived at the battlefield as an errand boy carrying food, but when he heard Goliath defy the armies of God, something stirred within him. He asked, “Is there not a cause?” (1 Samuel 17:29). David had no title, military position, or public recognition. Yet his passion for God’s honour moved him from the background into his purpose. When David found a cause greater than himself, he discovered what God could do through his life.
The church also has a cause. We have received the truth of the gospel, the revelation of Jesus Christ, and the message of repentance, baptism in Jesus’ name, and the gift of the Holy Spirit. But what is a message without a messenger? Truth entrusted to someone who will not share it cannot reach a searching heart. We must hold firmly to truth with one hand while reaching for lost souls with the other.
Passion is not uncontrolled emotion or activity without wisdom. It is a holy fire that covers faith, love, courage, consecration, and perseverance. It says, “Not my will, but Yours be done.” It burns away selfishness and moves ordinary people to pray, give, serve, witness, and endure discomfort so someone else can know Jesus.
The cross is the reason we go. Jesus gave Himself for people in every neighbourhood and nation. When His sacrifice becomes precious to us again, evangelism stops feeling like a church programme and becomes a loving response. We want others to know the Saviour who forgave us, filled us, and gave us new life.
We do not share out of guilt. We share because Calvary has filled our hearts with gratitude and Christ’s passion has become our passion. May the Lord wrap His church in a fresh cloak of divine passion until our schedules, talents, finances, prayers, and lives are given to His cause: reaching souls and making disciples.
TODAY’S RESPONSE
Spend time thanking Jesus for specific things He has forgiven and changed. Then pray for someone who needs to experience that same mercy.
PRAYER
Lord Jesus, thank You for giving Your life for me. Search my heart, renew my gratitude, and help me carry the message of the cross to others with love and urgency. In Jesus’ name, amen.