Like Tomatoes on the Vine

Children are like tomatoes on the vine. Tomatoes ripen when the sun shines upon them, and children ripen when their father’s face shines upon them. If you are looking for the central thing, it is this: Children go to slay giants when they know their father’s pleasure. Our Father in heaven not only knows this truth but has ordained it. So He assembles us one day in seven to reassure us of His love through bread and wine. Children, of course, get the sulks on occasion. They give ear to the snake’s hissing about “Did your Father really say?” And “How could He hold out you?” But it is remarkably hard to hold onto those lies when the Father is feeding you with a veritable feast.

While Lewis was right to get to mere Christianity, there is nothing mere about this meal. No matter how many times you come to partake, and no matter how may meditations you hear about this table, it remains a supper that cannot be captured with words or the human mind. It contains the uncontainable. It is food too large for your belly. The bread of which you eat is larger than the world itself and the wine sweeter than any you will find in an earthly vineyard. You come to a person now. But you can only come to Him now because He has first come to you. The Father is pleased with Him. And the Father is greatly pleased with you in Him. 

This truth liberates people from the shackles of fear, shame, and guilt that keep them keep them in immaturity. You indeed are free, as recipients of God’s pleasure, to carry that pleasure around with you wherever you go. It is the aroma of your Lord which is the savour of death to those who are perishing, and the savour of life to those who are being saved.

So come in faith and welcome to Jesus Christ.

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