We live in Christ

Chemicals have to die to themselves to live in plants; plants have to be ground beneath the jaws of death to live in animals; and animals have to submit themselves to the knife and fire to live in man. We also have to die to ourselves to continue to live in Christ. So communion also has another aspect. Paul says, “Know you not that as often as you eat of this bread or drink of this chalice you announce the death of the Lord until he comes.” This, then, is the communion where we begin now to live in Christ and become dead to the world. What a blessed privilege this is!