Amazing love!
by Rachael Stelzer
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While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, ‘Take it; this is my body’ (Mark 14:22).
Read Mark 14:12–26
As the disciples prepared to celebrate the Passover, the festival of Jewish freedom from Egyptian captivity, Jesus told them what they would find and need to say. They found everything just as Jesus had told them. He could see what was coming – and not just for the meal.
Jesus did not waste time when they sat down together, departing from the traditional Seder script to calmly state that one of the twelve would betray him. He continued to deviate from the standard script in claiming new meaning for the bread and wine – that this is Jesus’ body and blood, given and shed for them.
As Jesus shared this final meal with his friends, he foresaw that they would desert and deny him, despite their protests to the contrary. And yet, he continued to share a meal with them and love them.
What great mercy that the God we continue to fail and deny persists in loving us and sharing material and relational blessings with us. Amazing love!
Dear Jesus, I continually put my needs first and fail you. I praise you for your great love, which has covered all my sins. Help me to turn back to you every day in the joy of repentance and your new start. Amen.
Rachael Stelzer is the Primary Lay Chaplain at Coomera Anglican College near Brisbane. She is a member of Our Saviour Lutheran Church in Rochedale and teaches primary kids in the Growing Kids group. Rachael loves crafts, reading, and sharing meals, coffee and life with her family and friends.
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