The Lord's Table by Andrew Murray

Author:Andrew Murray
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Religion, Classic Literature
ISBN: 9781482087062
Publisher: CCEL
Published: 2013-01-27T22:00:00+00:00

PART III

The Week after the Supper

Too soon we rise: the symbols disappear.

The feast, though not the love, is past and gone; The bread and wine remove, but thou art here, Nearer than ever, still my Shield and Sun.

I have no help but thine: nor do I need Another arm save Thine to lean upon;

It is enough, my Lord, enough indeed;

My strength is in Thy might, Thy might alone.

Mine is the sin, but Thine the righteousness; Mine is the guilt, but thine the cleansing blood; Here is my robe, my refuge and my peace Thy blood, Thy righteousness, O Lord my God.

Feast after feast thus comes and passes by, Yet, passing, points to the glad feast above, Giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy, The Lambs great bridal feast of bliss and love.

—Horatius Bonar.

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I. MONDAY MORNING

The Power of the Food

My flesh is meat indeed and My blood is drink indeed. He that eateth My flesh and drinketh My blood abideth in Me and I in Him. — John 6:55.

Life must be fed with life. In corn the life of nature is hid, and we enjoy the power of that life in bread. As with the body, so is it with the spirit. The body is fed by the visible, the changeable life: the spirit must be fed with the invisible, unchangeable life of heaven.

It was to bring to us this heavenly life that the Son of God descended to earth. It was to make this life accessible to us that He died like the seed corn in the earth, that His body was broken like the bread grain. It is to communicate this life to us and to make it our own, that He gives Himself to us in the Supper.

By His death Jesus took away the cause of our everlasting hunger and sorrow, namely, sin. The spirit of man, his undying part, can live only by God, who only hath immortality. Sin separated man from God, and an eternal hunger and an eternal thirst of death were now his portion. He lost God, and nothing in the world can satisfy his infinite cravings.

Then comes Jesus. He takes sin away and brings it to nought in His body, and gives us that body to eat and to do away with sin in us.

Since in Him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily, whenever I receive and enjoy Him, not only have I the forgiveness of sins, but the life of God, the life of heaven is implanted within me.

Wonderful grace: may I understand it aright. The man who uses the Lords Supper aright is one that is distinguished from other men by the fact that he has partaken of the Bread of Life. He has really received Jesus Christ into his innermost being, and with Him the powers of the eternal life, as this is the life of heaven. It is to bring His own eternal life near to us, that God has given His Son as the food of the soul.

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