Emblems of Obedience

We do not serve a dead Savior; we serve a living Lord. So the emblems he instituted for remembering his broken body and shed blood picture obedience to him as resurrected Lord. The reason there are emblems of his body and blood is that’s what he gave in obedience to the Father.

Likewise, our resurrected Lord ever lives to receive our total, permanent, and exclusive obedience. And he ever lives to intercede for us because our obedience is not always complete.

The overarching fact here is that we serve a personal Lord, not a set of rules and regulations or a group of ideas. When we concentrate on serving that Person, we do a better job of living up to the ideals he wants us to maintain.

These are emblems of obedience—his obedience to the Father and our obedience to him.