In His Steps

The apostle Peter heard Jesus’ sermon about the kind of love and good-doing that is a credit and repeated that message in his own teaching.

If when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you might follow in his steps. (1 Peter 2:20-21)

We love because He first loved us. We love our enemies because we were enemies when He loved us. Christ did good and suffered and endured for us, so we must do good and suffer and endure following Him.

The communion table is a place of reflection, filling our hearts and directing our steps.

We reflect, as in we meditate on, Christ’s suffering for us. He atoned for our sins; “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree…by His wounds you have been healed” (verse 24).

And we reflect, as in we see the love for us to imitate, Christ’s steps in front of us. This is how we “live to righteousness” (verse 24). This is the way to credit in the sight of God.