Sometimes in Scripture, the disciples get it right. In Matthew 26, when Jesus around the Passover Supper told them that “one of them would betray him”, the disciples responded with amazing humility. Their question/response should be very much like our own when we approach the Lord’s Supper, “Lord, is it I?” Matthew’s version hints that each of the disciples did a quick interview with Jesus, sincerely wondering if they were guilty. Origen said that “they believed Jesus words over their own consciences.” We too need to heed the lesson. Granted the Lord’s Supper is a celebration, but it is so often presented glibly as “come and enjoy”. But Paul echoes the disciples heart when he chided the careless Corinthians, suggesting that we “should examine ourselves”. One of the lessons of the Lord’s Supper is the inward element. While we come looking for Christ and others, we are to look to the Word and confess, “Is it I?”
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