COMMUNION MEDITATION: When something is just that fantastic …

Have you ever experienced something so wonderful, so incredible, so amazing, so awesome, something so fantastic that you exclaimed it was “to die for!”?

That’s kind of an odd phrase, but you may have said it, or heard someone say something like, “Their cheesecake is to die for!”

To die, for a cheesecake?

Not really.

It’s a statement of grand hyperbole, made to emphasize just how fantastic something is.

The website Idiom Origins gives us this explanation about the idiom, “to die for”:

“This popular American hyperbole dates from the late 20th century and means something is so amazing that it is worth dying for. For example, the chocolate cake is to-die-for. It is thought to be of American Jewish origin and is perhaps a development from the adjectival phrase drop-dead, describing something superlative or excellent.”

We further understand how this idiom is grand hyperbole by simply taking just a moment to ponder for what, or for whom, we would be willing to die.

Almost no one, and almost no thing.

Not so with God.

Communion is a reminder that God thinks you’re “to die for.”

Seriously.

“But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners,” Romans 5:8.

“My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me,” Galatians 2:20.

“We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters,” 1 John 3:16.

When we partake of the Communion elements, we’re reminded that Jesus offered His body to be broken, and His blood to be shed, because He considers us worth dying for.

May that reminder motivate you all the more to live for Him.

Scotty