This feast is set for us by grace; we come through faith. It is not of ourselves so that we cannot boast. This sacrament is not a stone soup fable, where each family contributes what they can, and lo and behold we have a feast if we just coordinate our efforts. Just look what we didn’t know we had within us. No. We know what is within us before the Lord, and it is nothing but filthy rags.
We come to this dinner asking our host, “What can we bring?” and the host replies, “You can’t bring anything but yourselves. And you can’t even bring yourselves if I don’t keep you alive and give you the inclination to come. It is all of grace.”
Grace means God didn’t have to do this, and we don’t deserve it.
“Why was I made to hear your voice, and enter while there’s room, when thousands make a wretched choice, and rather starve than come?”
We don’t know fully, why. But the Father does long to give His Son the nations for an inheritance. He humbled Himself, even to death on a cross. And His Father exalted Him to His right hand, and has given Him the name above all names. From there our Lord calls us and draws us to Himself.
“Everyone who thirsts, Come to the waters; And you who have no money Come, buy and eat Yes, come, buy wine and milk Without money and without price…. For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater, So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please” (Isaiah 55:1, 10).
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