"Breaking of Bread"

"My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness." (Psalms 119:172)

  I was so tempted to share on that verse again, as I felt the "Beast of Burden" was not completely let out of the box yet. Nonetheless, another day, another subject; or is it? As many times as we partake in communion, you would think be now the breaking of bread would ring a bell in are heads, at least in our hearts; as it was the symbol Jesus used to show us how His body was broken for us. But wait a minute! What was broken again? Because the last thing I remember was that not a bone in His body was broken, so how was His body broken? Well, His spirit was not broken, that is for sure! No matter how much they humiliated Him, He remained steadfast and determined to complete the work that He had started. So, of all things, yesterday I heard a story of the Flood that I never heard before. It appears that in some culture, the story of the Flood involves a talking turtle; a turtle that came to a surviving brother and sister and told them that they needed to procreate together. Then, they were so upset by what the turtle said, that they smashed the turtle, breaking his shell in pieces. Turns out, another animal came to them and said that the turtle was right, and then they felt bad for what they had done; so they glued the turtle's shell back together. Thus, the reason that the shell of the turtle is in so many sections. I didn't just make that up, it is a legend in some country in Asia. Anywho, the "Commandments" spoken of here are the things we are not to do, "Don't worship other gods," "Don't take the LORD's name in vain," "Don't take something that does not belong to you," and, "Don't do anything else that you are not to do." If you want to talk about things that are broken, then any word God has spoken about these types of commands have been broken over and over again. The way Jesus was broken was by taking on sin! Paul clearly lays this out for us: Broken pieces are put back together again...

"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (2 Corinthians 5:17-21)