When I think of worshipping idols, often images of a golden calf or the like comes to mind. Today, though, our “idol worship” often seems to be deceivingly innocent, yet the implications are often more damaging. As we continue talking about communion this week, it is important to note that we are always communing with something or someone. Is that Jesus or something else?

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Worshipping idols isn’t always bowing down to a statue or figure. It’s putting something else above or before God. Maybe that looks like someone whom you put on a pedestal. It could be your job or your career. But those things weren’t ever meant to sit on the throne of your life.

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Communion is so much deeper than a routine we have of drinking some juice and eating a cracker. It represents so much more. Partaking in communion represents us joining Christ in his death, resurrection, and ultimately the new covenant. In this covenant of grace, the Lord promises a new heart, new spirit, and a restored relationship with him for his people. This restored relationship means that we get to constantly commune with Jesus! We abide in him, fellowship with him, and worship him alone.

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You see, Jesus didn't just come to save a piece of us or fix a little bit of us. He wants all of you and me. So, we take communion and join Christ in the dying of our old self, and he raises us to a new life with a new heart and a new spirit. This act of communion declares: I give all of me to Jesus, who gave it all for me.  

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We weren't created to worship anyone or anything besides God, as today’s verse reveals.  As a body of believers, we fellowship together, we break bread, and we practice communion as a symbol and a celebration of being made right with God, reminding ourselves that he alone is on the throne of our lives.

As you consider all the meaning that accompanies communion, think about WHO is on the throne of your life. We are called co-heirs with Christ. That means in his death, his resurrection, and his inheritance. How can you take a step today into living this out?  

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Maybe it’s realizing that there is something or someone in your life that has taken the place that only God should. As we take communion together, repent of that and ask God to guide you into a new path that gives your worship to him alone.  

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Take some time today to sit with the Lord. He wants to commune with you!