Broken

Jesus didn't want us to remember Him as the greatest Teacher, greatest Leader or greatest Healer. He wanted us to remember Him for His cross, His shed blood, His sacrificial death, His broken body. Redemption came through a broken Savior.

1 Corinthians 11:24 And when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, Take eat; this is my body which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

The body of Jesus was battered, bruised, bloodied, and broken. Jesus was punched and slapped, and crowned with thorns. His back was plowed with a cat of nine-tails, His beard plucked from His face. His hands and feet were nailed to the cross, and every bone of his body torn out of joint.

May we never forget as we take the broken bread at the Lord's Supper.

"Oh, the old rugged cross,so despised by the world, has a wondrous attraction for me."

George Bennard