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The Cup We Drink with Jesus: our Suffering and our Salvation

Posted on April 10, 2017

Throughout this Lent, I have been meditating on the call to drink the cup with the Lord. “Unless you drink this cup, you have no part in me.”

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The Last Supper, Pascal Dagnan Bouveret

What is the cup we are drinking? Well, certainly in the Garden when Jesus asks that the cup be passed by, he is referring to the suffering he must endure. The cup of Jesus we are to drink involves suffering. We are to embrace the suffering that Jesus calls us into as his own people, his family. We have no part in him if we do not drink it. In fact, Romans 8:17 says that we are “fellow heirs with Christ provided we suffer with him…”

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Can God Set a Table in the Wilderness?

Posted on April 29, 2016

Most of the time I feel just like the Israelites of old who doubted God would provide. I have just as many stories as they did to prove he has and will, but this time…this time is different?

At our Easter Festival this year in which our church dramatizes seven Scripture passages, the Creation passage concluded with a table being set for Adam and Eve in the garden, a place to have a meal with God. During the Fall, the table crashed to the ground. Later, in the Zephaniah reading in which God gathers his people and restores to them what was lost, the Eucharistic table was brought out and set in invitation to all those who are in God’s family–redeemed from the Fall, restored to fellowship.

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