Memory and proclamation - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2026

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.
1 Corinthians 11:26

Memory and proclamation
When the Lord Jesus instituted His meal, He urged His followers: “Do this in remembrance of me” (Luke 22:19). He wants us never to forget His sacrificial death. We should never forget how He surrendered His life for us on the cross out of love. When we eat the bread and drink from the cup, we remember our Saviour who gave His life for us. The bread symbolises His body in which He first bore our sins and then laid down His life by voluntarily dying as our substitute. His death fulfilled God’s demands that the sinner must die. But we were the sinners for whom He died. Therefore we remember Him when we eat the bread.

The cup speaks of His blood, shed on the cross at Golgotha. His blood made atonement before God and washed us clean from our sins. This is what we focus on when we drink from the cup.

Through participation in the Lord’s supper, we also proclaim His death. This proclamation is not through words but through actions. Every time we eat the bread and drink from the cup, we give a testimony to the Lord’s death. God rejoices in this because what His Son accomplished on the cross means so much to Him.

Therefore, until the Lord Jesus comes again, let us proclaim His death Sunday after Sunday. Perhaps today we will do it for the last time.

Today’s reading: Leviticus 18:1-30 · Psalms 66:8-20