Maundy Thursday

Today, Maundy Thursday, we receive the feast of Christ’s true body and blood for us, for the forgiveness of our sins. All of them.

How fitting that we have our feet washed by the very God from whom we once ran in terror and shame.

On this Maundy Thursday, in particular, let the “for you” of Christ’s gifts dominate.

So let’s go to dark Gethsemane. For there we see that even in his greatest moment of weakness, Jesus is our only source of strength. He drinks the cup of wrath so we can drink the cup of grace.

This is how the God of Abraham has become our God, too. This is how God has fulfilled His promise to Abraham and His promise to us: by breaking open His own body and shedding His own blood.