All God's promises bound up in bread and wine

All God's promises are yes and amen in Christ (see 2 Corinthians 1:20). This is why when we pray we usually do so in Christ's name. We are essentially appealing to God to answer our prayers according to the promises he's made to us in Christ, based on his merit and not our own. 

The culmination of God's promises throughout history comes through Christ's life, death, burial, and resurrection. By his wounds we are healed (as Isaiah and a few Christian singers have said).

Healed? Yes. Restored to right union and communion with God and with God's people. Within ourselves.

The sacramental meal of the Lord's Supper shows us this union and communion in concrete, tangible form. We see, smell, feel, taste, touch the gospel in partaking of the Supper. We see, smell, feel, taste, touch our union and communion with God. And, while partaking we can look around and see our fellow heirs with Christ doing the same and we remember our link to them as well. Our union and communion with them.

This is life as God meant it to be. Harmony. Love. Fellowship. Union. Communion.

So, in a sense, all God's work in the world is bound up in bread and wine. 

Next time you are at table with the people of God, do remember (as directed by Christ himself); taste and see that the Lord is good.

Here's another of my communion poems that works to convey these realities in poetic form.

Bound up with bread and wine

All God’s work in the world—

Bound up with bread and wine.

From creation’s first day

To the consummation,

All summed up in a meal.

The glory of our God

Giving power for life

And power for right worship—

Full participation—

By precious promises

We’re somehow partakers

Of the divine nature—

Union and communion

Through the righteousness of Christ.

Waking then walking,

Conversing then sitting,

Remembering

and to the future looking…

Hoping in the taking

Seeing in the tasting

All the goodness of God—

All God’s work in the world—

Bound up with bread and wine.