Today, I want to present a shorter post about Maundy Thursday. This is the day on the Christian calendar when we remember a couple of different things. First of all, this is the night before Jesus was crucified. On this night, Jesus met with His disciples in the Upper Room. During the course of the evening, Jesus washed His disciples' feet. This wasn't something that Jesus would be expected to do.
In Jesus' day, the task of washing people's feet was left for the servants in the household to perform. Jesus washed the disciples' feet as an example to show them how they should live in the world after He was gone from them. They were to follow His example of taking the place of the servant. In other words, their ministry was to go about and be of service to those to whom they were to take the message of Jesus' love. They were to go into the world and help to meet both the spiritual and physical needs of those in the world. Wherever they went and whatever they did, they were to remember the example of Jesus that He came to serve and not to be served. They were to have a humble heart like unto the humble heart of Jesus the Lord.
On Maundy Thursday, Jesus also instituted the sacrament of Holy Communion. Jesus said that the bread represented His body that was broken and the cup represented His shed blood. Whenever we eat the bread and drink from the cup, we are remembering the sacrifice that Jesus made for us on the cross. Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of world. When we accept what Jesus has done for us, the judgment of God passes over us because we are clothed in the righteousness of Christ. Amen.
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