Communion Meditation, "This Blood" by Carmen

Violently they grabbed His arms as they tightly strapped each wrist.With the hellish looks that a strong armed soldier whip clenched in his fist. Laced with chips of bone they beat Him hard from His shoulders to His feet. It sliced right through His olive skin just like razors through a sheet. Countless times the blood splattered as each inhuman lash was given. Several times His knees gave way as His flesh just hung like ribbons. Then surprisingly He turned His head though the words He used were few. The soldier's face turned pale when He said, “This blood is for you”. Uncaringly they tossed a garment across His weakened form. And His blood pressure fell deathly low as the crowds began to swarm. They forced Him to carry His cross uphill as His face they punched and smacked. As the splinters from the crisscrossed beam dug deep into His back. Through lack of sleep and dehydration His tongue began to swell. Weakened by His loss of blood this Prophet Teacher fell. When He did some blood splattered on a man named Simon's shoe. And as He bent to wipe it off the Prophet said, “This blood is for you”.
Then they pounded a spike through the bones in His wrist, bursting arteries and veins. As they dropped the cross in the hole they dug, His body convulsed with pain. Through an agony and torment that never a soul shall find. He tilts His face toward heaven with full control of his mind. With more love than any human heard before that time or since. He made a statement that to this day makes the strongest skeptic wince. He cried, “Father God forgive them for they do not know what they do.” And as He gave His live for those lost in sin, He was saying , “This blood is for you.”
As we observe the Lord's Supper let's remember what happened on the cross. Jesus died for our sins so that we could spend eternity with Him. All we have to do is ask Him into our heart and to forgive us our sins then we can spend eternity with Him. Let's pray.
Mark 14-22-25
While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take it; this is my body."
Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, and they all drank from it.
"This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many," he said to them.
"I tell you the truth, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it anew in the kingdom of God."