1 Cor 10:16 (The Cup)

I have become fascinated with communion now that i have been studying it out some. When receiving communion, what is it that we should experience and understand? I discovered something that i will remember the next time that i take it, causing me to fall in love with Jesus all over again. There is a song that i love a whole lot, and the chorus says this, "I wanna sit at your feet, drink from the cup in your hand, lay back against you and breath, feel your heartbeat. This love is so deep, it's more than i can stand, i melt in your peace, it's overwhelming." The cup that is spoken of in this song....hmmmm, The Cup!!!

Let us travel back to the garden of Gathsemane for a minute. Remember before He is offered up, Jesus goes and prays three times, asking The Father to "let this cup pass from me." What cup is He talking about? it is the cup of the wrath of God. How do we know that? (You can find it in Rev 14:10 & Rev 16:19), when God's wrath is poured out upon those in the last day that will not choose Christ. God is loving, He is also Just. I am recalling the lesson before this and the story of Cain and Abel and why God accepted Abel's offering...it was a blood offering which is a type of Christ. We can ONLY come to God through the blood of Christ.

So, is the cup of wrath the one that the girl is singing about in my song? No. but we first have to understand what we have been spared from, before we appreciate what we have been given. Now that we know that we have escaped the wrath of God, we can accept the cup of blessing that is spoken about it 1 Cor 10:16. Christ didn't have to lay down His life, but He did, for us...not for Him, He didn't need redemption, we did. He hung there up on the Cross and when He cried out, "My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?" He was receiving upon Himself the Judgment of God for our sins. He was spiritually feeling the total and complete withdrawal of the Holy Spirit from His life...No presence of God, The Father had turned His back on Christ at that time. And it pleased the Father to bruise Him, so that WE could receive what He came to give us.

I meditated on this cup f wine that Christ held in His hand the night of the last supper. He held it up, and said that it was His blood, given for us, to DRINK IT, and do it in remembrance of Him. WHAT does that MEAN?! He said that if we do not, we don't have eternal life, we have "no life in us." I thought then, what can we not live without as humans? There are basically three things that are body cannot go without for an extended period of time or we will die and they are: Water, Blood, & Spirit. 70% of our body make up consists of water, we have got to have blood...an incredible loss of it will kill us, and if we do not have a spirit, we are not actually alive. Have you ever been with someone when they died, I have...you know when they are gone. it's as though you can tell it, their spirit is GONE! hard to describe, but truly amazing to notice.

How is it that the cup of wine would be like Water, like the Blood of Christ, like the Spirit of God? i looked up the word, drink in the greek, it means: "to drink, figuratively to receive into the soul what serves to refresh, strengthen, nourish it, unto eternal life." Water is a refreshing drink when you are thirsty. Remember how David said, "As the deer panteth for the water, so my soul longeth after thee, Lord." The Holy Spirit is a refresher, it brings peace, overwhelms you, fills you up when you are dry and empty, it's how God communes or communicates to us, through the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit. So how is the wine figuratively His blood and what does it have to do with the aforementioned? When we realize the cup that has passed from us, when we understand the cup in which we drink of because of Christ, which is blessing and not cursing, it's Life and not death, we are fully able to grasp the meaning that is in this phrase He uses, to drink His blood. Knowledge of the atonement of Christ is refreshing to my soul!!!

David said it like this in Psa 116:13 "will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD."


i know that i am not using much Word here to explain here, but bear with me, i still have some things to share. There are times we have to seek the Spirit of God to reveal things to us, and there is need for an explanation....

i decided to look up the word, "communion" in my strong's concordance. it means "fellowship, association, community, communion, joint participation, intercourse." That says a whole lot to me!

This is the scripture that comes to mind when i think about communion:

Rom 14:17 "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost."

---His righteousness that i receive, His peace given freely to me, His joy because i have none of my own.---

So when i looked at Rom 14:17, i began to think again about the wine. what is it that wine is known for doing? it makes you feel peace, relaxed, happy, carefree, it makes you want to be intimate with you Lover and then Rest. That is the way that this cup should be to us as well. To realize that through what Christ has done for us, we can relax, have joy, be intimate with our God, & Rest in Him.

We should be SO overwhelmed with Joy in this revelation, that we do what? i looked up the phrase, "sacrifice of praise," wondering what real significance it has to my walk.

In Jer 33:11, it says, "The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD [is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever: [and] of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD."

This word sacrifice means to confess, praise, give thanksgiving to give a thank offering

THIS IS WHAT THAT IS TALKING ABOUT!!! What He has done and what we should do. it shouldn't be predicated upon our feelings at the moment, it's not something that we are forced or expected to do, and yet, for any child of God that knows what God has delivered them from (and i am not talking about smoking, drinking, sex outside of marriage, porn addiction, etc.) what i am referring to is the bigger picture and the GREAT deliverance, if you will, and that is Hell and Eternal Damnation and Judgment that we have escaped...freely!

There is so much further that i could still go with this, but i am so long winded, i fear no one will desire to attempt to read my blogs anymore if i continue to write so much in each one......