The Lord’s Supper -- John Piper

Dear Jesus, as I take this bread, 

   This sign of dying seed,

Oh let my hungry soul be fed

   With deathless life, I plead. 

If I must signify my blame,

   And crush the bread I eat,

Oh let the taste of bitter shame

   Be short, the end be sweet.

Oh may this bread, though I must die,

    A true similitude 

Of grace, forevermore be my

   All-satisfying food.

                         * * * 

Then after supper, Lord, you said,

    "A covenant in blood,

This cup." And thirsting, in my stead,

     You drank the fatal flood.

And now must I remember this,

     The bloody price of lust?

Must I confess my Judas kiss

     Against this cup? “You must.”

Then guilty I will taste my death,

     The death that you have died,

And sing your life with endless breath,

      Forever satisfied.

                            * * * 

The cup is past, the bread consumed,

      Now come, Lord Jesus, pour

Your Spirit ’til, all hunger doomed,

      Your people thirst no more.

 -- John Piper

                        CM tune

Who did GOD Set to Protect his Own?

....those charged with defending and protecting the people and/or the sanctuary of God are men rather than women, fathers rather than mothers.

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This remains true through the period of the first temple, when there is a male priesthood operating alongside a male monarchy in Judah (Athaliah is never called a “queen” or given any legitimacy by the writer, and as such is the exception that proves the rule).

For the full article: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/beautiful-complementarity-male-female/