Given for me

 

“This is My body, which is being given for you” – Luke 22:19 (NASB)

Read that verse again. Let it sink in. Jesus is talking to you, beloved.

Now say aloud, Jesus’ body was given for me.

We tend to simply go through the motions without truly grasping the enormity of Jesus’ words…

“This is My body, which is being given for you…”

Today marks the culmination of everything that Jesus suffered for you – the teaching, the condemnation, the accusations, the persecution, the betrayals, the agony, the bloody sweat, the cat-o-nine tails, the denials, the pierced side, the abandonment, the crushed lungs, the inability to breathe, the impaired blood flow, the physical trauma, the excruciating pain…

His body, given for us, given for you, given for me.

Jesus suffered to the extreme so that you can have a life worth living in Him.

and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. – Galatians 2:20 (NASB)

Jesus gave Himself up for you so stop treating Him as an afterthought.

Given for me…

And now Jesus is risen from the dead and seated at the right hand of God in the heavenly places, over all rulers, authorities, powers, and kings. God put everything under His power and made Him head over everything and He makes everything complete in every way (ref. Ephesians 1:19-23).

Beloved, Jesus gave Himself for you, so that you may be made complete in Him in every way.

Amen †

 

Shelley Johnson “Given for me” ©2026 April 4, 2026