Drawing the Spiritual out of the Physical

One major activity of God in the world is drawing the spiritual out of the physical. In keeping with that program, he uses the tangible to picture the intangible and to embed in our memories the acts of God in history that bear significance for our attitudes and behavior.

The physical emblems we are holding point to spiritual meanings that impact elements in us that we cannot measure. Those intangibles represent what Christ meant when he talked about coming among us to give abundant “life.”

He demonstrated in his physical body the spiritual values by which he lived and calls on us to embody. In his final hours he carried that commitment to its highest level. That supreme demonstration of conformity to God’s intention for human life is what the cup and loaf express for us in in this place this time.