The Last Supper

Read the Last Supper story as found in Luke:

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+22&version=NIV

My church has focused on a sermon series about Baptism, Profession of Faith, and Communion in these past few weeks. That, along with different moments and teachings at school, have made me realize that Communion is really, really important.
Communion is all about remembering. We join together to remember and take part in the Last Supper. Although I have done this since I made Profession of Faith in middle school, it is now that I am understanding more completely the beauty and weight of the story of the Last Supper.
The Passover is a celebration of God's people from the Old Testament times. It's a holiday when Jews would (and do today) eat unleavened bread and sacrifice a lamb to remember and celebrate God saving them during the plague of the first born. This was when God killed all the first born sons in Egypt, but if the Israelites sacrificed a lamb and put the blood on their doorway, their sons would be saved from dying.
It was a celebration that was practiced by all followers of God throughout time. Isn't their something beautiful about the fact that Jesus did too? But there was one time when everything changed. Jesus prepared the passover for his disciples, but in the Last Supper, he broke the bread and passed the cup to explain that he was offering himself as the passover lamb. He was going to sacrifice his blood, once, and for all, for our salvation. The passover would take on a completely new meaning. And after Jesus died, we have a new celebration. We have Good Friday, and then we have Easter. We have triumph over death and the Son of God laying himself down for us, taking the place of the passover lamb and completing the story that has intertwined the history of God's people and the world.
This is why communion is so important. We can picture ourselves in that upper room, Jesus' heart heavy, hurting, and scared. We can listen to his words to the disciples and to us, saying, we don't need the lamb anymore. It was okay for a time, but now I have come to fulfill what God has promised. I am the lamb. I am the sacrifice. Take this bread, take this cup. Remember and believe. For this is my body, broken for you, and all sinners. And through it. Through it I give you life. It is through my death that you will truely, truely

live.