“The celebration of the Lord’s Supper,” said Chrysostom, early church pastor in Constantinople, “is the commemoration of the greatest blessing that ever the world enjoyed” (quoted in Watson, The Mystery of the Lord’s Supper).

God meets in countless places with innumerable gifts and kindnesses. We have food, family, friends, work, rest, leisure, all the comforts of hearth and home, freedoms in our nation and opportunities more than we can count to love of the bless others. No gift is to be minimized or taken for granted.

But every week without fail God offers this gift of Himself. We remember Jesus’ body broken and his blood shed, what it cost Him to save us and therefore to be able to receive Him and all that means—abundant life—forevermore.

This is not a bare commemoration, but one that takes us further up and further in. “For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes (1 Cor. 11:26). Jesus is reigning until every enemy is made His footstool, the last one being death, and so this proclamation, communing in the Lord’s Supper, is an invitation to believe and eat, believe and drink. So come and welcome to Jesus Christ.