A Table of Mercy

To come to this Table, which all who are baptized are summoned to do “as often as you do this,” is to come to the Table of Mercy and Delight.  This is a memorial for God, where He delights in the mercy He has given us through His Son and He delights over those to whom He has given this mercy.

It displays the great cost of that mercy, for that mercy was purchased, fully and completely, through the death of God’s Son on the Cross.  His body was broken, His blood was shed.  And God remembers that here at the Table with us.

It also displays the great efficaciousness of that mercy.  We have become that one loaf, that one body, knit together – and so we partake together of that one loaf.  And the blood of the new covenant has become a cup of delight – of fellowship and rejoicing – in the wine of mercy refined -  intoxicating mercy.  And God remembers that here at the Table as well.

And so come in the name of Jesus, to the Table of Jesus and partake of Jesus by faith – in the company of the Father and in the mercy of the Holy Spirit.