We bring nothing in our hands to this table. God provides it all. We even need Him to get us here in the first place. It is all of grace. Where we deserve starvation and dehydration, our Savior Jesus Christ gives His life, spreads a feast, and bids us come. Even on this day, when we think of the depths of our sin, you are commanded now to put away that sin, to put away consideration of it, once it is all confessed, to leave it outside the door, and to come eat and drink with the Lord in close fellowship. Turn your consideration of sin into gratitude and love for the brethren.
Know that you eat with other saints, also saved by grace. Remember that grace we share in common as you fellowship later. Remember that shared grace as you eat and drink now. We are not here in the same way two people watch a movie together, with no interaction between them as they watch. Each thinking and feeling our own thing as we watch the same thing. No, we are not partaking of Communion in that way. We share a common life together. We are eating the same meal at the same table of Christ, with the same fellowship, conversation, laughter. We are part of one body, one family of God. We have been adopted and made partakers of the same Father’s table. So come, enjoy fellowship with the Head of the Feast, and with His adopted brothers and sisters.
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