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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: Now it is surely a sin and a shame that He so cordially and faithfully
summons and exhorts us to our highest and greatest good, and we act so
distantly with regard to it, and permit so long a time to pass [without
partaking of the Sacrament] that we grow quite cold and hardened, so
that we have no inclination or love for it. We must never regard the
Sacrament as something injurious from which we had better flee but as a
pure wholesome, comforting remedy imparting salvation and comfort,
which will cure you and give you life both in soul and body. For where
the soul has recovered, the body also is relieved. Why, then, is it
that we act as if it were a poison, the eating of which would bring
death?
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