Proverbs 9:1-6 - Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars. She has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table. She has sent out her young women to call from the highest places in the town, “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” To him who lacks sense she says, “Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight.”
One of the things about Mothers is that they set tables. The church is a mother of sorts, designed to feed God’s children with His bread and wine, to call out in the streets for the simple to enter God’s house and find wisdom.
Now, moms aren’t perfect, and neither is the church. On a Tuesday noon, you might find mom
whipping out the plates, slapping the PBJ on the bread hurriedly, being a
little short with the kids. But we are
called to honor her as best we can. Is
she giving you nutrition and not poison?
Then stay and eat what you are served.
We can have very particular palates when it comes to our theological
taste on the menu at church, and mom might serve something else. Jesus sees to it at this Table, that whatever
the faults of the server or the receiver, it is He Himself that you receive. So do not shrink back.
5/8/22
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