A Precious Life

Even Satan understands us well enough to know that we will give everything we own to preserve our life (Job 2:4). That is how valuable we consider life. We would have to think something is awfully important before we’d voluntarily give up our life for it.

In that light, we gather around these two emblems just now. They draw us back to the giving of a man’s life, and not to just any life—the most important life ever—the life of the Lord himself. This occasion reminds us how much we are worth, how much we are worth to him, how much he values our relationship to him and to the Father.

Each life is a serious matter, particularly as we move forward in friendship with God and in keeping with his purposes for us. Emblems of body and blood say these things to us in no uncertain terms.