COMMUNION MEDITATION: If you think inflation makes things expensive …

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Americans are chafing at the cost of things these days. By the end of 2021, inflation had risen to an annual rate of seven percent.

While we may find that at least “financially uncomfortable,” there are places in this world, and there have been times in history, when the cost of things were much worse.

Even today, there are people on this globe who attempt to survive on an income of less than $2 per day.

For those and others, it seems like everything is financially beyond their grasp, including the most basic human needs.

There is one thing every human who has ever lived — so that includes you and me — has faced that is too expensive, it’s beyond our ability to ever pay.

That’s the cost of our sin.

And what is that cost?

A warning of the cost for sin was first laid out here:

“But the Lord God warned him, ‘You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden — except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die,” Genesis 2:16-17.

In the New Testament we recall these words written by the Apostle Paul:

“For the wages of sin is death …” Romans 6:23a.

And confounding that is this:

“In fact, according to the law of Moses, nearly everything was purified with blood. For without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness,” Hebrews 9:22.

Communion is the regular, consistent, vitally needed reminder that we have a Savior from our sin, One who was able to offer His blood and broken body to pay for sins and offer us forgiveness.

“For I pass on to you what I received from the Lord himself. On the night when he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread and gave thanks to God for it. Then he broke it in pieces and said, ‘This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way, he took the cup of wine after supper, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant between God and his people — an agreement confirmed with my blood. Do this in remembrance of me as often as you drink it,'” 1 Corinthians 11:23-25.

That cost too great for us has been paid in full. Instead of a crushing debt ultimately ending in death, we have forgiveness, freedom, and the hope of eternal life.

Scotty