Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Well, hey friends, welcome to Thursday's edition of the Weekday Podcast. Thanks for hanging out with us. If you're ever looking for a topic that maybe you haven't heard yet, swing by weekdaypodcast.com and you can see hundreds of past episodes. I'd love for you to check it out and maybe you'll find exactly what you're looking for. Well, today I want to tell you something that a lot of Christians are afraid to admit. Sometimes you can take communion and feel, well, absolutely nothing. The music is right, the room gets quiet. Everyone around you has their eyes closed and seems to be having a moment, and you're sitting there holding a tiny cup, wondering whether you left the oven on like the second that feeling shows up. And it's guilt. Sometimes people begin to ask, what's wrong with me? Shouldn't I feel something? Well, if that's you, I want you to hear this one idea. You are not broken. You're human. And this meal was never built on your feelings in the first place. This is what Jesus says and first quoted in 1 Corinthians 11, verse 25 in the same way, he took the cup also after the supper, saying, this cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. There's two words that really matter here, covenant and remembrance. A covenant is a binding promise. In the ancient world, the most serious covenants were sealed with blood, as if to say, this promise is life and death real?
[00:01:18] When Jesus says, this cup is the new covenant in my blood, he's telling you that God's promise to forgive you and hold on to you doesn't depend on how you feel on a given Sunday. It depends on his blood. And remembrance in the Bible isn't nostalgia. It's not flipping through an old photo album. When Israel celebrated the Passover, each generation they were told it is because of what the Lord did. For me when I came out of Egypt. From Exodus 13, that line for me, not just my ancestors, remembering meant stepping into the story as if you'd been there. And that's what happens at this table. You're not recalling the fact, you're taking your place in the story. And here's a line that's helped me Feelings they're like the weather. But doctrine is ground weather changes constantly. Some days are bright and warm and some are gray and flat. You don't control the weather, but you do get to decide where you stand. The ground under this mule is his body given, his blood poured out, his covenant kept and it does not shift with the forecast. And that leads us to the line for today. We don't come to this table to feel something. We come to remember someone.
[00:02:31] Sometimes the feeling will come. Sometimes the tears show up out of nowhere. And it's beautiful when it does. But on the days that they don't, nothing has been lost. Jesus is just as present and the promise is just as true. So here's your step. The next time you're at the Lord's table and the feelings are flat, don't go searching for an emotion. Just say what's true quietly, in your own words. Your body for me. Your blood for me. Your promise holds. And this week, when your faith feels more like a grade 8 than a sunny one, pick one truth about Jesus and say it out loud every single morning. You're not trying to manufacture a feeling. You're planting your feet on solid ground. Weather passes, but the ground stays. We don't come to the table to feel something. We come to remember someone. And so tomorrow, we're going to talk about why this meal was never meant to stay at the table. I hope you'll join us back. Have a great day.
