Early on Monday morning, I spent some time to extensively reflect on the blessing of food as it points us to Christ and God’s redemptive purpose for us demonstrated by the Cross. Today, my orange reminded me of this again. I wanted to remember Jesus through partaking of the Holy Communion. I already had my crackers that I was going to use as the Body. I wanted to use orange juice as the Blood. I had an orange that I got yesterday and I just need to squeeze the juice into my cup. As I squeezed the orange, I thought about how doing that was a picture of the Body of Jesus Christ that squeezed for his blood to pour out for me. It was also a picture of how grapes are squeezed to produce their juices. The sense of God’s love just washed over me as I thought about this and I fell to the ground and cried, in gratitude. I recently listened to a sermon by Pastor Joseph Prince about the firstborn blessing of Jacob. Isaac blessed Jacob that he would enjoy the dew of heaven and the fatn...
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