Every earthly meal is subject to the vanity of decay and death. We eat, yet hunger again. We drink, but grow thirsty again. We throw a party, but it soon fades into a memory. This meal is a meal of life. Eternal life. It is a banquet celebrating and memorializing the conquest of Christ over death itself.
Christ promised us that by this feast He imparts Himself to us, and we enjoy all the blessings of His righteousness. One of the principle blessings is that of communion with each other. This is why one word we commonly use to refer to this feast is that of communion. While earthly feasts come & go, this communion surpasses the temporal.
In fact, here at this table we share in the eternal life which the saints who have preceded us are now enjoying. They have died, but are more alive than ever. Christ has purchased everlasting life for us, through His body and blood. This is not a pagan commemoration of the departed dead, it’s an affirmation that through Christ’s death we all shall also share in His resurrection. When you pass on to glory, you just go to sit on the other side of this table.
But what we partake of here, is what we partake of there: the real presence of Christ. Heaven is suffused with the light and life of Christ’s perfect righteousness, glory, and joy. Here it is held out to us and we partake of it by faith, there it fills all things and is partaken by sight. Here is the promise of our inheritance, there we receive in full. Thus, all the saints who have gone to be with the Lord, remain in communion with us here. For our Lord has made all of His elect saints one in Him.
So, come in faith and welcome to Jesus Christ…
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