A Clear Focus

Cameras, microscopes, telescopes, binoculars all need to be brought into focus to see clearly what we want to look at. This loaf and cup bring into focus an event that could become a fuzzy memory that comes near to vanishing away. Christ’s voluntary suffering to the point of death culminated his earthly ministry.

In turn, that act itself brought into focus a pattern where God provides for his people what they cannot provide for themselves. Christ as a real person embodies self-giving for the need of us weaker brothers. That is why Paul could say that “Christ” was the rock in the wilderness that provided water for people who could not provide their own (1 Corinthians 10:3). Similarly, the Hebrew writer could say of Moses that he counted the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt (11:26). The Christ principle stands at the apex of everything our faith is about.

Here we give tribute to a mentality, not just in principle, but in the person of him whose name we wear and to whom we focus our own endeavors to emulate.