Take my life, and transform me, Lord
December 13th, 2022 – Communion Meditation
Ecclesiastes 3:1,10-11 (NLT) –
“For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven . . . I have seen the burden God has placed on us all. Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.”
God has made everything beautiful for its own time.
God takes ordinary words and transforms them. We can use words to curse or to bless, to exclude or to invite, to prevaricate or to pray.
God takes ordinary people like you and me and transforms us. If we only consider the parts that are physical, we might conclude that we are just another species on an insignificant planet in a corner of one among countless billions of galaxies. If we consider who God says we are, we realize that God created us in His own image and likeness and has bestowed on us identity, meaning, and purpose that go beyond that which is bound by time and space.
God takes ordinary things and transforms them. In a few moments we will eat the bread and drink the cup, ordinary everyday elements, but which become extraordinary as both those elements and we ourselves become transformed in this sacrament that we call “Communion” or “the Lord’s supper.” In taking this seemingly small step of obedience to Jesus, God gives us special grace to be able to live out the life of Christ.
Would you pray with me? Lord God – Father, Christ Jesus, Holy Spirit – we surrender our hearts, our minds, our bodies, our belongings, our time, our talents, our treasures, our very lives to you afresh today. We ask that you would be glorified in and through our lives as we pray the words of this hymn:
Take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee. Take my moments and my days; let them flow in endless praise.
Take my hands and let them move at the impulse of thy love. Take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for thee.
Take my voice and let me sing always, only, for my King. Take my lips and let them be filled with messages from thee.
Take my silver and my gold; not a mite would I withhold. Take my intellect and use every power as thou shalt choose.
Take my will and make it thine; it shall be no longer mine. Take my heart it is thine own; it shall be thy royal throne.
Take my love; my Lord, I pour at thy feet its treasure store. Take myself, and I will be ever, only, all for thee.
On the night that Jesus was betrayed, He took the bread and said, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” (eat)
Again, Jesus took the cup and said, “This is my blood of the new covenant poured out for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” (drink)
