“My friend was going for a walk on a Saturday morning with her autistic daughter and their dog. On the way back home they decided to stop at McDonalds. But she had a problem. She could not take the dog inside. And she couldn’t leave her daughter outside with the dog."
“So she decided to do something I wouldn’t have thought of, nor would I have had the guts to do it. She got in line to go through the drive-thru - walking. When it came time to order she was told that since she was not in a car they could not take her order. What she did not notice was there was an angel in the car behind her. This angel saw her predicament and told her that he would order for her. Not only did he order, but he also paid and wouldn’t let her reimburse him.”
Don’t you love stories like this?
But it could have been worse. The “angel” could have vented frustration with a long horn blast or bellowed out the window, “Hey lady, move it.” An attitude Jesus endured most of his life.
Within hours of his birth King Herod slapped a death warrant on Jesus’ life. “Get out of my way. You’re in my lane.” Throughout his ministry he was rejected by his kinsmen as Isaiah predicted, “ … for both houses of Israel he will be a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare.” “Hey bud. Move it.”
But instead the Los Angeles “angel” became a Good Samaritan – “he took pity.” [Luke 10:33] He sensed her predicament, then ordered and paid – a genuine act of kindness. No one made him order, and for sure no one made him pay. He chose to. Jesus advised: “Go and do likewise.” [Luke 10:37] But not just Jesus’ advice, it was his heart and soul and mind and body. “I’ll pay.”
The Lord’s Supper emblems are reminders of a Savior sensing our predicament – can’t take dog in, can’t leave autistic daughter out. Only our predicament is SIN – can’t get in heaven with it, and for sure don’t want the alternative. Not only sensing our dilemma, he willingly paid. Money would have been a simple exchange, but sin’s debt demands death. “I’ll pay.”
There’s no way we can reimburse this payment, but we can choose to accept it and obey His insightful instruction - eat of the bread and drink of the cup in remembrance of Him.
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