One Angel of Encouragement

These communion elements take us back to the hardest situation our Lord faced. Jesus could have prayed to the Father to send as many as 72,000 angels to protect him from this ordeal (Matthew 26:53). Instead, the Father sent him one angel to empower him with influence to deal with it (Luke 22:43).

God may not protect us either from the ordeals we face; but remembering our “older brother” here and the presence of the Spirit that’s always with us, is sufficient to empower us for times like that. The loaf and cup together draw us to that ideal because we are not above our Lord in such matters.