I like that red muscadine juice that Post puts out. We keep a bottle in the refrigerator and a back up in the pantry. I don’t care for the wine. Dad used to make muscadine wine. The juice was good starting out, but by the time it went through the fermentation process, it lost all its sweet goodness. Besides, I messed with alcohol, and now I don’t indulge in the bottled (or canned) spirits. But the muscadine juice, I like. I like to use it every morning to take communion. It’s not a religious ritual with me. It is just a reminder. The Word says as often as you choose to do it, do it as a reminder of what the Lord has done for us. There are a couple of pills and a vitamin that I take first thing in the day. I just call them my communion “elements,” and with a big swig of the muscadine juice from the refrigerator door, I serve a reminder to myself. I say, “Thank you, Lord, for taking a beating so I can be healed and strengthened and my youth renewed; and thank you, Lord, for dying on the cross and shedding your blood so that my sins are all taken away and I have the righteousness of Jesus Christ imputed to my account. Thank you, Lord, that I stand righteous in your sight because of what Jesus has done for me.” This starts every day off with a fresh realization of what I have in Christ Jesus, the Spirit-anointed Son of God. God wants us to keep in mind what Jesus has done for us. That’s why He gave us the ordinance of communion. He wants us to “discern” or realize the worth of what Jesus did for us and apply it to our life by faith. If we partake of communion (the Lord’s supper) “unworthily” or “irreverently,” not understanding and applying His work to our life, then we live under condemnation and in weakness and sickness, and sometimes even premature death. If we partake of communion as just a religious ritual, not stopping to thank Him for what He has done, and apply it to our life by faith, then we continue in bondage. Communion is designed to help set us free in every way so we won’t fall under the same condemnation as the world of spiritual darkness, defeat and sickness in body. Whether we do it corporately at church or privately at home, or both ways, it is to serve to liberate us in spirit, soul, and body. It is God’s ordained reminder— “This Do in Remembrance of Me” (1 Corinthians 11:24). We are to examine ourselves to see what we are dwelling on and believing. Do we have sin in our life? Then by faith, run to the blood for cleansing. Do we have sickness in our life? Then by faith, run to the broken body of Jesus for healing. Remember what Jesus has done for us.
Good Muscadine Juice
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