December 13 Petition Mission

“This is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me” (1 Cor 11:24). In all of Scripture a more poignant petition cannot be found. It is not a request from God’s people to the Lord, but of the Lord to His people. After the unnumbered requests answered by Him, would we be careless about this one to us?

Recently I read the tragic tale of the annihilation in June 1942 of Lidice, a village in what is now the Czech Republic. Under the pretense of reprisals for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the residents were either murdered or sent to concentration camps, and the town was utterly destroyed. When news of this reached the world, nations around the globe began renaming places Lidice—in Venezuela, Mexico, England, the U.S., Bulgaria, Panama, Brazil, and Chile. They would not let it be forgotten.

Christ’s death on a cross of shame was intended to remove His memory from the earth. But across the world, week by week, we “proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes” (v 26).