Jesus Calls His Guests to Dine

Revelation 7:9-10, “After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10  and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

The Lord’s Table is to be, a gathering of the guests of Jesus Christ.  We are called to bring before our mind when we meet what has been done to give us white robes.  It is not our righteousness.  It is not our own blood and labor that has redeemed us.  We gather to the Table of the Lamb.  We cry out “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

The invitation is to the guests of Jesus.  But we are not only the guests at this wedding feast.  We are the Bride dear ones.  We come to feast with our Bridegroom.  Do you have on your wedding garment? 

He is impeccable.  Christ is unstained, unspotted.  No heart of rebellion was in Him.  His body was broken for your rebellion.  You who once were rebels, come.  The King invites you – Come and dine! Come and take in the Body of Christ.  He is here with us even now.  Let us commune with Him at His Table.

The Bread

Have you come to feast on the unleavened bread of Christ’s righteousness today?  When Elijah was afraid, he ran for his life into the wilderness.  Perhaps that is where you are today.  We find that Elijah even wanted to die there.  He had just seen the greatest victory, yet he was crushed by despair.  Do you feel weak?  Come to the Table. You see the Angel of the Lord went out to the wilderness and cooked up a meal for him and “touched him and said, ‘Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you.” 8 And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God” (1 Kings 19:5b).

The food we need today is Christ.  Feel the compassion of Christ.  Arise and eat!

The Cup

Are you thirsty for Christ’s love?  Are you tired of the world’s dryness?

The Lamb cries out: “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price” (Isa 55:1).

Perhaps you’ve stumbled in your life and you think God loves you less.  You feel unworthy to come to His Table.  Sit where you are.  Christ girds His servant’s towel and in His infinite meekness He looks into your face with love and says:  Isa 44:3, “I will pour water on him who is thirsty, I will pour floods upon the dry ground:.” Are you thirsty?

Drink the cup and remember the blood of the Lamb of God that completely satisfied the justice of God.