Offering and Communion Thoughts or How not to communicate with your Wife

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Communion

An interchange or sharing of thoughts or emotions; intimate communication, the act of sharing, or holding in common; participation Do you remember when you first spent time with your spouse, you would talk and talk? Go to dinner and it wasn’t about the food or the location but about the conversation. You wanted to know them and to share your thoughts and feelings with them. Time passes and you get married and have kids, a career and a mortgage not to mention life just happens. We don’t have time to talk any more with our spouse or if we do it is hurried and about the kids or how to deal with a broken shower. Life interrupts our relationship with the one that is most important to us here on earth. It is like a guy I knew that had been away on business for several days and when he got home he took his wife to dinner. On the way into the restaurant he grabbed a paper and proceeded to read it while they waited on their dinner. He didn’t mean to ignore her but he had gotten into a rut on the road and the headlines distracted him from the true purpose of the dinner, to communicate with his wife. Our time with Christ is the same. When we are first saved we read the word, we pray and we really get to know and talk to God. But life happens and we become preoccupied by all that is around us. As we prepare for this time of communion take time to filter out the distractions, the news of the day, what you’re having for lunch, I hope I get a nap in this afternoon, you know all the thoughts we have throughout the day. Talk to God, open up and let Him speak to you in the next few moments. Just like we can recapture the spark with our spouse by getting away for time together. We can start to recapture our relationship with Christ by putting away the clutter in our minds and talk to Him; share your failures and your fears and your thankfulness for His love for us, by sending His only Son to ransom us for our bondage of sin. Remember the sacrifice and triumph of the resurrection Offering Something offered in worship or devotion Do you remember a time when you gave a gift to someone you loved. A gift you saved for and put a lot of thought into. You know the kind of gift where every week you put $10 or $20 dollars right off the top into a hiding place until you had enough to go purchase the item. Genesis 4 3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the LORD. 4 But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. God is a patient God and he waited on Cain to bring his offering it says right here in Genesis “in the course of time” but Abel, he brought the firstborn. Here’s the point he didn’t wait to see which one would win the fair or sell at the auction for the highest price to help pay the bills he said that is the best it goes to God and with what I have left and with God’s help I will have enough to make it work. We either fall into the Cain group; give what we have left or what we think we can afford to give. Or we are in the Abel group that says God here is your offering right off the top and I trust you to help me make what is left meet my needs.