Consecrated flesh. The Father spoke this to me over and over as I was walking along. He strongly impressed upon me - my flesh isn't mine, not anymore, it belongs to my Father. Consecrate - to make or declare sacred, set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity, to hallow, to devote to some purpose - to change (bread and wine) into the Eucharist - Just as His Body and Blood were given away in fulfillment of the Father's will, so is mine, my body, my blood - become bread and wine to be consumed by others - take, my brethren - this bread, my body, broken for you, and eat - and I will eat of you - drink of me and I of you - we are thus sustained, we survive on our love for one another. Communion really is a union - a co-union of us, together with Him. This is why He tells us not to concern ourselves with what we shall eat, drink or wear - for our Father knows what we have need of for our bodies are His! He takes care, good care, of His flesh - "For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it; even as The Lord the Church". For we, the Church, are His body - that He nourishes and cherishes (to hold or treat as dear, to feel love for, to care for tenderly, to nurture) "For we are members of His Body, His flesh, and of His bones...".
You know, Jesus gave up His one body - sacrificed on behalf of all who will receive Him - but He gained so much more - He gained every body that throughout history has become His temple - and the same is true of each of us - who belong to Him, if we lay down our lives, our one brief life granted us by God - if we sacrifice our souls in service to Him - we gain so much more - we take, not only our one soul to heaven with us - we take the souls of all those whom Christ was able to reach - because we became living epistles, his bread and his wine - given to those in death, that they may live.
Who turns down free bread and free wine? Lead us, oh Lord, to souls who are hungering and thirsting for You, though they may not know it yet - may we become, in Your hands, broken and shared with others, poured out on behalf of others - do with our flesh as You please, O Father, consecrate us by Your presence within us - to Your service, Father. Keep us from temptation and the evil one. Amen. 

Part Two

Mankind is so fascinated with nature - how some animals hunt their prey, how other's survive, but it wasn't always so. Before man fell, before sin and death were introduced into God's creation, the animals only ate plants - not each other. All creation were herbivores, and so shall they be again in the New Heaven and the New Earth - "The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy...."
Oh how wonderful it will be, when from sin and death we are free! And it will be wonderful to no longer "see through a glass darkly"  "And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer, and while they are yet speaking, I will hear". Once our sinful flesh is gone forever - and we've inherited our new bodies, our relationship with Him will be glorious indeed. "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before Me, saith The Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain." but to whom shall The Lord pay attention to? Where shall He inhabit and with whom shall His rest abide? "Thus saith The Lord, The heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool: where is the house that you build unto Me?" All religion shall be done away with - for all denominations are "houses built by man" - and He tore the veil to signify He no longer dwells in houses built with hands, but in a temple made without hands "and where is the place of My rest? (my heart) But to this man will I look - even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at My word."
Some will rejoice at His appearing but many others will be ashamed. How often have we been cast out of fellowship by so called brethren yet we have this promise - "Hear the Word of the Lord, you that tremble at His word: your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for My name's sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified: but He shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed."
For now, we travail along with all creation - for the birthing of the new heavens and the new earth. We can never be truly at peace in this present world, surrounded as we are by sin and death. Oh do not be counted among the number of which the Lord said - "when I called, you did not answer, when I spoke, you did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not." This verse perfectly summarizes denominations today - full of people who care not at all for His voice, who do not answer his call, who turn away from Him, not toward Him, who expect Him to listen to them but will not listen to Him. When they are rejoicing, His servants are sorrowful, and when they are grieving, His servants are rejoicing - "Behold, My servants shall eat, by you shall be hungry: behold, My servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty (in the midst of famine, God will sustain His own, indeed, all who take the mark of the beast - seeking to preserve their comfortable lives apart from God, will lose their lives - they will go hungry, while those who took the seal of the Holy Spirit of promise, will be will fed and cared for) behold, My servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed: behold, My servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit."

All creation is suffering because of mankind's sin and rebellion. That bird outside my window, busy worshipping the Lord with his song - giving pleasure to the Lord because he's doing what he was originally created to do, is just minding his own business, being a bird. He isn't confused about whether he's a male or female bird, he doesn't wish he was a female bird, but I digress - the point I wish to make is this - he's minding his own business, then man comes along and covers his fields with cement, and chops down all his trees or war breaks out, fire rains down from above, or he flies into a windshield he couldn't see, and that bird dies. His life and death were affected by man and not in a good way.
Did you know there is four times as much plastic in our oceans as plankton? Or that there's a garbage pile floating in the Pacific that's twice the size of Texas and growing? Or that the Brazilian rain forest is being decimated daily? We have wiped out entire species of life! Other species are on the verge of extinction. We are, simply put, terrible stewards of ourselves and God's creation. God told us to "replenish the earth" not deplete it. "For the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God." All mankind, every man, every woman and child on earth is in "the bondage of corruption" except those who have become the children of God - "But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name. Which were born, not of blood, nor of thee will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." Yet even we, as God's holy children, though no longer in bondage to corruption, are affected by the filthy, corrupted world we must abide in until He returns.
Though we strive to sin not, we are daily affected buy the sins of fallen men and women "and others save with fear, pulling the out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh", "Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." All creation is waiting on us - the children of God, to be manifested in our eternal glory as Jesus manifested His eternal glory at the mount of transfiguration. "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now" - "waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body." In this sense, when God creates the "New Heaven and the New Earth", He will "reverse" the order of the first creation, starting with man, and ending with Day 2. He will not need to create "Light" (revelation knowledge), for all will be revealed, nothing hidden, no darkness. Neither will He need to create a new sun - "And there shall be no night there, and they need no candle, neither light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light; and they shall reign forever and ever."

Part two soon.....

"Therefore let us not sleep as do others"

Why does the Bible refer to some people as being asleep, spiritually? Why do their spirits slumber? Here's the thing - people who sleep close their eyes - they are shutting out the Light (remember, in the Bible, light refers to "revelation knowledge"). People prefer darkness when they sleep - they seek it out. So people who slumber spiritually are those who wish to avoid the Light  "Then Jesus spoke to them again saying 'I am the Light of the world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of life'.  People who are avoiding the Light are avoiding Jesus - the complete summation of all knowledge and revelation of God to mankind, the "fulness of the godhead bodily". They do not want to see - they are blind by choice. It is not that they cannot see but rather that they will not see. But why would men choose to be blind and deaf spiritually? To dwell in darkness rather than light? It is because their deeds are evil and they do not wish to repent of them. "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved." In the light, our nakedness is exposed. We only wish to hide our nakedness from God when we are using our flesh to sin - before they sinned, Adam and Eve "were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed." They only became ashamed of their nakedness after they had used their flesh to sin (rebel) against God - who only ever desires our good. This is what it means to take communion in an unworthy manner - The Cross is all about exposing our nakedness, our sin and shame. Jesus became naked on the Cross to expose our nakedness to the Father, who rightly condemned our sin - putting us to death (in Christ) and casting us far from Him - creating a place (hell) where all who choose darkness instead of light may await the final judgement. Holiness refuses to allow sin into His presence. Light and darkness cannot mix - "for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness?" :Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, saith the Lord almighty."
So, in a very real sense, taking communion is us bringing our sins into the light, rather than keeping them in darkness. To do this unworthily means we're taking the elements selfishly, for us, for what we can gain, rather than discerning the Body, we only discern our body, not those hurting and suffering the malady of sin around us, needing our love, needing us to declare their sins forgiven and remitted. "But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup, for he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's Body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep". "God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear."
At the same time that the Cross exposes our sins to the Father, Jesus took the full force of the Faher's wrath upon himself - so that we died in Christ also, as He died upon the Cross, which is why we won't taste the second death. And if we died in Christ, we shall also live in Him - when He was raised from the dead - so were we. So our lives, from beginning to end, our deaths, resurrection, all of it - are found in Christ - past, present and future. In Him we truly do "live, and move and have our being" both now and in the life to come. 

Father I pray that You will be pleased
with all my words and all my deeds.
From this day forth
I will stay the course
and do my best
to continue laying my head on Your breast
And for all of my remaining days,
fill my heart with adoration and praise
for You and all You plan to do
For You, Lord, are forever just and true.
There truly is no one beside You....

You have no equal
in heaven or on earth,
or throughout the Universe -
there is none of greater worth....