Today is Good Friday. It is almost three in the morning here where I’m currently stationed. Around this same time, two thousand years ago, Jesus had just finished having his last meal with his disciples before they went to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray. Two thousand years later, that particular dinner is still being celebrated by the Christian faith around the world.
Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 11:23-24 that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
My question is: Why did Jesus have to break the bread when he could have just multiplied it? Just like what he did to the little boy’s fish and loaves to feed the five thousand. They could have had a more satisfying meal than eating small pieces of a broken bread.
And then it hit me.
I wonder if this is the same way God works in our lives. That sometimes He doesn’t multiply us nor increase our resources. Instead He breaks us into pieces. I wonder if He allows us to undergo some crushing and breaking so that in our brokenness, we can experience His wholeness. So that in our sickness, we can experience His healing. So that in our despair, we can see Him do a miracle on our behalf.
It is too astounding to comprehend. But one thing I noticed is that when the bread was being broken, Jesus was the one holding the bread. Which tells me that even through the most heart-breaking moments of our existence, just like what’s happening to our world today, we can be sure that our lives are still in good hands. And those hands were the same hands that were nailed to the cross for our salvation. This, I think, is the reason why even in the darkest of days such as today, we can still call it “Good Friday.”
Author/Contributor : Archieval Soriano is a Dubai-based Filipino freelance writer whose passion is to reach more people for Jesus through His write-ups. He volunteers as part of the Technical Team of Victory Church Dubai every Sunday night and loves eating pancakes for breakfast.
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