COMMUNION MEDITATION: Finding strength at the Lord’s Table …

For years, the early morning postings on social media came from many of the more charismatic personalities who would greet the day and tell everyone to go “crush it!”

I always found it interesting how these people would boast of “crushing” challenges, “crushing” competition, “crushing” whatever obstacles come their way. And while they had some success, it would soon be revealed these boastings were foolish chatter as people discovered they’re far more fragile and weak than they think.

That reminds me of a story from an unknown source …

Two friends stood in a large railway station and watched an express train with the most modern of engines go flying through.

“What a powerful engine!” remarked one of them to his friend, who was the Station Master of that station.

“Yes!” said the Station Master, who was a Christian, “On the rails. But off the rails it is the weakest thing in the world. And how like the Christian! His power lies in communion with his Lord and Savior, but when he leaves the path of communion he is the weakest person in the world.”

Life is bigger and stronger than we are, capable of “crushing” us if we try to navigate it on our own power. To endure, we have to draw strength from a source greater than ourselves. We find that source when we come to the Lord’s Table to commune with our Lord who endured a “crushing” experience on our behalf so that we would not be utterly crushed:

“But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed,” Isaiah 53:5.

At the Lord’s Table we remember afresh how it was Jesus who has “crushed” the power of sin and death and has set us free to follow in His steps, empowered by the Holy Spirit leading us like a mighty locomotive. We don’t have to go out and “crush” anything, we just need to stay on track following behind the One who has already, truly, “crushed it”!

Scotty