JESUS ​​CHRIST IS LORD

THEME: THE WAY OUT IN EVERY TRIAL.

Beloved, servants and sheep of GOD, as long as we are pilgrims on this earth, we will always be confronted with trials (temptations) or difficult situations.

However, it should be emphasized that there is an important nuance between trial and punishment.

• Trial allows us to judge the value or our degree of faith (trust) in God. From this point of view, it is a passage from one stage to another.
• Punishment, for its part, is a punishment due to a fault. To get out of it, we must seek the cause in prayer, or through personal examination. Once the revelation is received, we proceed to repentance.

But in the trial, we have the help of GOD in our favor. This is why 1 Corinthians 10:13 informs us that no temptation (trial) comes that is not human and that GOD who is faithful, cannot allow us to be tempted (tested) beyond our strength and even if the test comes he delivers us by preparing the way out. We must always keep in mind that God does not tempt anyone. Temptation must be understood here as the test according to the Hebrew or the Greek.

Likewise, in John 14:6, JESUS ​​CHRIST himself reveals to us that he is the way, the truth and the life and that no one comes to the FATHER (GOD) except through him. In other words, JESUS ​​CHRIST is the way out of any test or situation.

We are entitled to ask ourselves what is the means by which we access this exit door?

This royal and infallible means is the Holy Supper which was revealed and instructed to Paul by JESUS ​​CHRIST himself.

Just as it is through food that sin entered the world, so it is through the Holy Supper that the Christian receives all the benefit of the work accomplished on the cross by JESUS.

However, it is appropriate to discern the Body and Blood of CHRIST. Because, a mechanical and undiscerning intake leaves it without effect. The piece of bread that we eat puts us in communion with the Body of CHRIST, just as the wine puts us in communion with his precious Blood. This is how we discern the Body and the Blood.

Furthermore, Paul seriously warns us against idolatry. It is the fact of being in communion with a divinity when we eat before it. It is also a form of worship.

Hence this exhortation from Paul: "Do not become idolaters, as some of them did, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and then they rose up to play." 1 Corinthians 10:7.

By taking the Holy Supper in the rules of art, we actively participate in this memorial of CHRIST who bore our sufferings and took our infirmities by taking care of our illnesses!

Like Paul and the first disciples, let us break bread daily to build the bridge with the Body of CHRIST, this true concentrate of blessings. And we will be able to say with Paul, it is no longer I who live, but CHRIST in me. Did not JESUS ​​himself say that he who eats his Body and drinks his Blood, remains in him and will live eternally?

Let each one therefore go and take what he needs for his body and his situation!

Apostle OLIVIER FOANZ