Imagine if you will that this is your last day to live….
What would you be doing?
Are you spending time with your spouse and children?
Maybe you’re out with friends? Maybe you are meeting with a lawyer to set up
your will and get your estate in order. Maybe you’re out skydiving or cliff
jumping…whatever you are doing, most likely you are not washing the feet of
your friends, or crying in a garden somewhere.
But those two events along with others make up the
very crucial moments of the last 24 hours of Christ’s life.
READ MARK 14:17-31
Here Jesus is participating in the Passover meal with
his Disciples. The Passover meal was a special commemorative meal celebrating
and remembering God’s deliverance of the nation of Israel from the Egyptians
and the angel of death in the 10th plague.
Reclining at the table, Jesus takes the elements of
the Passover meal and institutes what we call today the “Lord’s Supper’, “Communion”,
or to some what is called the “Eucharist”.
This meal went from being a remembrance of what God
did for the Hebrew children, into what God was going to do with His Son upon
the cross of Calvary.
Taking the unleavened bread he declared that it would
be a reminder to those that took part of His body that was broken for us.
Taking the juice he declared that it would be a
reminder to those that took part of the blood that was to be shed on our
behalf.
It was there in that upper room that he instituted
this meal.
READ JOHN 13:1-20
It was at the end of this same meal, that Jesus took
up the basin of water and washed the feet of each of His disciples teaching
them, that if they truly want to be followers of Jesus Christ they must also
become servants of Jesus Christ.
READ MARK 14:32-44
And then came the end of the day, that fateful moment
while praying in the garden of Gethsemane, that Judas appeared with his cohorts
to arrest Jesus.
A busy day for the Savior, but a day well spent.
If it was your last day, what might you do? How would
you spend it?
PSALM 90:12 “So teach us to number our days, that we
may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”
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