Communion: It's Root (II of V)

The mixing of Blood and Water, of Skin and Life, has its Root in the Wood of Calvary. The Veil in the temple was torn by the Elements of the Crucified and we forever have access to the Father by the Same.

Whenever the Wood of Calvary is infused into our situations a new Substance appears. It is a Substance of Judgement, firstly, then a Fountainhead of Redemption. The Rod of Moses prefigures all the benefits of the Cross. On that day when he touched its tip into the Nile and the water turned to blood it prefigured the tip of the Cross and it's penetration into our own NIle. When the Cross digs into our Egypt our bitter waters are at once judged, and then simultaneously forgiven for the sake of his Mercy.

Without the stinging infusion of his blood, extending out from the Wood of Calvary (that Rock which is Christ), our hearts would be forever Mara, forever bitter. Praise God that we are sweetened as the Root of Communion strikes through the sinfulness of our embittered hearts.

That Reality is present when you take Bread and Wine. As the power of the Cross bleeds into your life you are at once judged and pardoned by the all consuming power of the Cross. You are both united to the Story of the Horrible Act - you become one with the betrayal of Judas, the denying of Peter, the fury of the Romans, and the Judgement of Pilate - and, at the same time, you receive the undeserved freedom of Barabbas, and you become awestruck in wonder, united with the Centurion in his astounding proclamation, "Surely this is the Son of God."

It is enough to quake the ground beneath our feet.

All that happens - the Sacred Memory of the Wood and Lamb - and its timeless overlap in this present day - when you partake in the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.