Communion Meditation / 03.22.26

In today’s world, success is often defined by being known. You could say it’s the image of a stage and hands clapping for you with more and more people knowing your name. But the communion meal calls to question that image of success. Its simplicity forces us to pause and ask —which is more important, to be well-known, or known well? People may know our names, but do they know our hearts, our past, our loves, our fears, our present struggles, our deepest longings?

It’s been said that to be fully loved but not fully known is comforting but very superficial. To be fully loved and fully known is our deepest desire, to be completely exposed and completely embraced is the real success each of us so desperately crave. But where for heaven’s sake can that be found? Where can the real us be found? It’s all right here.

Christ died for us reminds us that we are fully loved. Christ died for our sins, reminds us that we are fully known. This meal is the pledge of Jesus that nothing about you can change anything about him. Nothing you have done will ever drive him away…because He knows it ALL and He Loves you—the REAL you, fully! This meal is a call to let the stage give way to the table, the hands clapping for the hands clasping, the longings for fame to be replaced with longings for fellowship.