As a person who takes communion daily, I have encountered some concerns from others. They wonder: If you do it every day, doesn’t it lose some of its meaning? Does it become rote or repetitive?
As the “Daily Communion Blogger”, I would like to address these questions.
For me, the more important question is: Why don’t we do it more often? Communion is a celebration of the relationship that we have with Jesus Christ, as part of his body. It’s like the relationship of a wife to her husband. You would never say we shouldn’t spend so much time celebrating our relationship. Or we wouldn’t say that we should limit our time together to once a week because we don’t want our time together to lose its meaning or become rote. No, we actually want to cherish every opportunity we can have together as husband and wife.
By communing with Him, including partaking of the Lord’s Supper, we are taking advantage of the opportunity to celebrate His provision for us that came from His undying love and favor toward us. If you think about 1 Corinthians 10 and Paul’s words about when we partake of the bread and the cup. He said, “As often as you do it, remember Him.” In other words, Paul wants us to keep Christ as the center of partaking of the cup and the bread. How often is this: as often as we do it. For many people, doing it often or even daily is the choice that they make.
Also, it’s helpful to consider that we can’t have the Lord’s supper too frequently any more than we can have a sermon, the preaching of the word, too frequently. We generally wear our wedding rings daily as a reminder of our marriage covenant. The Lord’s Supper is a celebration of God’s new covenant with us that was made by the spilled blood of Jesus. God is the one who made the promise to accept us as his children because of Jesus’ sacrifice. He seals that promise with the Lord’s Supper, a recurring reminder of His promise to us.
God himself, in Christ his son, pledged by word and deed that he is ours and we are his. This pledge is celebrated and remembered with the Lord’s Supper. We aren’t always perfect. Yet, though we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot break his oath to us.
So, for all the people who were curious about communing daily, we do it because it is our privilege!
We are happy for those who join us for the celebration.
May God Bless You
The Daily Communion Blogger
