[Manna - April 12]
The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the participation of the blood of Christ?
The bread which we break, is it not the participation of the body of Christ?
For we being many are one bread. 1 Corinthians 10:16,17
IT is one cup, though it be the juice of many grapes,
even as it is one loaf, though it be from many grains.
The grains cannot maintain their individuality and
their own life if they would become bread for others;
the grapes cannot maintain themselves as grapes if
they would constitute the life-giving spirit; and thus
we see the beauty of the apostle's statement that the
Lord's people are participants in the one loaf and cup....There is no other way that we can attain the new
nature than by accepting the Lord's invitation to
drink of His cup, and be broken with Him as members
of the one loaf, and to be buried with Him in baptism
into His death, and thus to attain with Him resurrection
glory, honor and immortality. Z.'01-76 R2772:6