Maundy Thursday...It All Makes Perfect Sense...

When I was in elementary school, I remember going through the lunch line. There were about four people ahead of me, and they all got the same thing: a rectangular cracker, and a paper medicine cup full of peanut butter. It looked so tasty to me. Well, every day before lunch, the teacher would ask, "Raise your hand if you're observing Passover this week..." I looked around the room at all of the hands raised. Some of them were the people that had the matzo from the day before. My hand shot up. Count me in for THAT. I ate matzo and peanut butter that day, and it was fantastic. Well, somehow my mom found out about it, and she told me I couldn't be doing that. My mom started buying my own matzo, and that lasted through high school.

Well, a few years ago, a friend of mine invited me over for a Seder meal. It dawned on me at that moment, that "on the night Jesus was betrayed..." The disciples were having a Seder meal, and we Christians have the missing piece. Jesus.

We've all had certain things we have heard over and over again, but then there are these moments where you hear it, and all of a sudden, it is like, you finally HEAR it, and everything makes much more sense.

Maundy Thursday. The first communion was given. Jesus was betrayed. The other night, I heard the hymn "How Deep The Father's Love For Us," and was not only reminded that at my best, and at my worst, I am Judas. In spite of that, Jesus' blood has paid my ransom. My debt is paid. Therefore, let us keep the feast!