The Table That Feeds the World

If we are to live the way God has called us to live, then we must know the relationship between this table and every other table we sit at. One man errs by living as if this table has nothing whatever to do with his dinner table, his work desk, or his conference table at work. This is the sacred-secular dichotomy error. Another man errs by equating every table in the world with this one. His whoe life is sacred in the same way this table is, so every mountain is Mount Zion, every sacrifice is the one made on Calvary, and every room of his life is the holy of holies. We can call this the “if everything is sacred then nothing is sacred” error.

The key is to see that this table feeds the world. Every table answers to and must answer to this table. Every sacrifice you make is an echo of the sacrifice remembered here. Every act of obedience is the fruit of your obedience here. You are not always eating the Lord’s Supper, but you are always having had eaten the Lord’s Supper. 

You do not continually remember Christ in exactly the same way you remember Him here before this bread and wine. But that you remember Him here and now in this sacred way orients you to remember Him always in all of your labors.

As our old hymn says, “Here He gives Himself to us as bread. Here as wine we drink the blood He shed.” And if he supplies us here on this holy mountain, will He not meet all of our needs down below? Surely He will. This is a wine that springs forth from the mountain and gives life to the world. So come in faith and welcome to Jesus Christ.

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